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Title: The Life of Captain James Cook

Author: Arthur Kitson

Release Date: January 27, 2004 [EBook #10842]

Language: English

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(PLATE: CAPTAIN COOK.
FROM THE PORTRAIT BY N. DANCE, R.A., IN THE PAINTED HALL, GREENWICH
HOSPITAL.)

THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN JAMES COOK

THE CIRCUMNAVIGATOR

BY ARTHUR KITSON.

WITH PORTRAIT AND MAP.

1907

TO
MY WIFE
LINDA DOUGLAS KITSON.

PREFACE.

In publishing a popular edition of my work, Captain James Cook, R.N.,
F.R.S., it has, of course, been necessary to condense it, but care has
been taken to omit nothing of importance, and at the same time a few
slight errors have been corrected, and some new information has been
added, chiefly relating to the disposition of documents.

I must not omit this opportunity of thanking the Reviewers for the
extremely kind manner in which they all received the original work--a
manner, indeed, which far exceeded my highest hopes.

ARTHUR KITSON.

LONDON, 1912.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER 1. EARLY YEARS.

CHAPTER 2. 1755 TO 1757. H.M.S. EAGLE.

CHAPTER 3. 1757 TO 1759. H.M.S. PEMBROKE.

CHAPTER 4. 1759 TO 1762. H.M.S. NORTHUMBERLAND.

CHAPTER 5. 1763 TO 1767. NEWFOUNDLAND.

CHAPTER 6. 1768. PREPARATIONS FOR FIRST VOYAGE.

CHAPTER 7. 1768 TO 1769. PLYMOUTH TO OTAHEITE.

CHAPTER 8. 1769. SOCIETY ISLANDS.

CHAPTER 9. 1769 TO 1770. NEW ZEALAND.

CHAPTER 10. 1770. AUSTRALIA.

CHAPTER 11. 1770 TO 1771. NEW GUINEA TO ENGLAND.

CHAPTER 12. 1771. PREPARATIONS FOR SECOND VOYAGE.

CHAPTER 13. 1772 TO 1774. SECOND VOYAGE.

CHAPTER 14. 1774 TO 1775. SECOND VOYAGE CONCLUDED.

CHAPTER 15. 1775 TO 1776. ENGLAND.

CHAPTER 16. 1776 TO 1777. THIRD VOYAGE.

CHAPTER 17. 1777 TO 1779. THIRD VOYAGE CONTINUED.

CHAPTER 18. 1779 TO 1780. THIRD VOYAGE CONCLUDED.

CHAPTER 19. APPRECIATION AND CHARACTER.

JAMES COOK, R.N., F.R.S.

CHAPTER 1. EARLY YEARS.

James Cook, the Circumnavigator, was a native of the district of
Clev