COOK

Captain, was bom in 1728, and began life as an errand boy in a ^ shop; but in 1755 he entered the Royal Navy, and his first piece of work was surveying off the coast of Canada. He discovered New South Wales in 1771, and did a great deal of other valuable work in the Pacific. He also made an attempt to find the North-West Pa age. He was murdered on valentine Day, 1779, on the island of Hawaii.