from a club. A part of his bones were finally re covered, and committed to the deep with the usual ceremonies and honours.

Thus unfortunately perished one of the most sagacious, enterprising, and successful navigators of his own, or of any other times. He was temperate, patient of toil and hardship, of cool and determined courage, and great presence of mind, of plain manners, and humane disposition. It is possible that the confidence arising from great success rendered him for once too little observant, or too regardless, of the perils to which he was exposed. But his faults he expiated with his life, while his virtues have gained for the whole world a rich and lasting reward.

The expedition, soon after this melancholy event, sailed again for the north, but did not effect any great discovery. Captain Clerke, who had thrice circumnavigated the globe, died at Kamschatka. The naturalist, Mr. Anderson, had died at Onalaska the year before. From the north-west coast they sailed to China, and reached home after an absence of four years and nearly three months. War had broken out between England and France before they returned; but, to the great honour of the latter, the cruisers were ordered to treat the scientific expedition as a friendly power.

In order to have before us at one view the merit of the discoveries of Captain Cook, it is worth while to recapitulate them, and to consider how much they have affected the commercial interests of civilized nations. He discovered New Caledonia and Norfolk Island, New Georgia and Sandwich Land, and many smaller islands in the Pacific; surveyed the Society

Islands, the Friendly Islands, and the New Hebrides; determined the insularity of New Zealand; circumnavigated the globe in a high southern latitude, so as to decide that no continent existed north of a certain parallel; explored the then unknown eastern coasts of New Holland for two thousand miles; determined the proximity of Asia to America, which the discoverer of Behring's Straits did not perceive; and discovered (or re-discovered, if it be true that a Spanish navigator had seen them before, of which there is some slight evidence) the most important group in the Pacific and, at any rate, so brought the Sandwich Islands to the knowledge of the civilized world, as to make their value appreciated. What perhaps is quite as important and quite as much to his honour, "his surveys afford the materials of accurate geography." He was such a vigilant and untiring observer, and availed himself so constantly of all the improvements suggested by science, that his errors are very few, and he laid down the configuration of the coasts with so much correctness as to have attracted the notice and received the willing praise, of the most accomplished seamen who have succeeded him. It was probably owing to him, that an English colony was established in New Holland, and possibly, although the influence is more remote, that an English settlement has been made in New Zealand. The fur trade took its origin with this last voyage, and his intercourse with the islands of the Pacific laid the foundation of the abundant navigation which now cheers those distant seas. His home was upon the sea, and no man has done more to make every ocean familiar to others.