Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
CHAPTER V.
CAPTAIN COOK'S THIRD VOYAGE.
I.
Search for lands discovered by the French--Stay in Van Diemen's land--Queen Charlotte's Strait--Palmerston Island--Grand fetes at the Tonga Islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
II.
Discovery of the Sandwich Islands--Exploration of the Western Coast of America--From thence to Behring Straits--Return to the Hawaian Archipelago--History of Rono--Cook's death--Return of the Expedition to England . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
SECOND PART.