Children's Fiction
More than a hundred years ago, there lived a man who dwelt in a mud cottage in the county of York; his name was Cook. He was a poor, honest labourer--a farm servant. This man was the father of that James Cook who lived to be a captain in the British Navy, and who, before he wa...
Captain Cook left Tahiti after a stay of three months. During the greater part of this period the sailors and natives had lived together in the most cordial friendship, and in t...
7. Chapter 7It fills one with wonder to think of the strange and absurd things that men, in all ages and in all parts of the world, have done to themselves in order to improve their persona...
11. Chapter 11In the spring of 1776 Captain Cook set sail on his last voyage, in command of the _Resolution_, accompanied by the _Discovery_ under Captain Clerke, an able officer, who had bee...
3. Chapter 3One of the main objects that Mr Banks and Dr Solander had in view in going with Captain Cook on this voyage was to collect specimens of plants and insects in the new countries t...
5. Chapter 5It was on a bright day in June when he first saw it from the deck, but when his vessel (the _Dolphin_) came close to it, a thick mist descended like a veil and shut it out from...
9. Chapter 9The cruelties inflicted on the wretched prisoners taken in these wars were inconceivably horrible and disgusting. Some of our readers may, perhaps, think we might have passed ov...
8. Chapter 8All travellers to those regions bear witness to this fact. When Cook went there, the natives of all of them were absolute savages. At the present time a great number of the isla...
2. Chapter 2Men who study the stars tell us strange and wonderful things--things that the unlearned find it hard to understand, and harder still to believe, yet things that we are now as su...
4. Chapter 4Soon after this adventurous visit to the land of Tierra del Fuego, the _Endeavour_ doubled Cape Horn--and entered the waters of the great Pacific Ocean; and now Cook began to tr...
6. Chapter 6Less than two years after the discovery of Tahiti by Wallis, Captain Cook arrived in the _Endeavour_ at the same island. He first saw its high mountains rise on the horizon on t...
1. Chapter 1More than a hundred years ago, there lived a man who dwelt in a mud cottage in the county of York; his name was Cook. He was a poor, honest labourer--a farm servant. This man wa...