COOK

JAMES, }. at Marton, 1725, the us| great navigator and discoverer, was the adison of iy rane in Yorkshire. After gh | serving in the merchant service, he entered d.|the Navy, and soon rose. His voyages, >»y |on account of his accuracy in the observe | vations he mado, added much of great of | value to our geographical knowledge. He 3, | did more than any one by his discoveries, ry | as an explorer, to get Australia and New st | Zealand added to our a In the le gee Re og ~ landed at ng | Hawaii in the Sand Islands, when he he | was suddenly attacked by the natives, and clubbed or stabbed to death at the n- — edge, 1779. Kefer to “Cook” in ch| [s. 107]