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Title: The story of Captain Cook's three voyages round the world
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Jones, M
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : Cassell, Petter & Galpin
Contributing Library: Scott - York University Libraries
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ern passage, he had notreached quite so high a latitude as had been attained byCook. Some walrus were got in these regions, as before. Onemother-walrus, whose young one had been killed, attackedthe boat with such fury that she sent her tusks rightthrough the bottom of it. White bears, of which theysecured a couple, though fishy in flavour, were found veiysuperior diet to walrus. After three years absence from home, the order to bout-ship was joyfully received by every one on board.On this northward course, by the 17th of August, theinvalid, unable to leave his bed, was obliged to commithis duties as commander to the first lieutenant, Mr. King;in less than a week after, he was dead, having thus beenin harness literally to the last. There is something grandand heroic in a mans thus calmly struggling on until hislife and his charge are laid down almost at the samemoment; and such heroism may be, and is, practised inthe quietest, least distinguished posts that fall to the lot of MM A IPi?
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u . DEATH OF CAPTAIN CLERKE. 257 human beings. Heroism must be in the soul: it does notdepend upon circumstance. Young as Captain Clerke was—he was only thirty-seven—this was his fourth voyage round the world. Returningto their hospitable friends of the harbour of St. Peter andSt. Paul, his comrades laid to rest the worn-out body—wornout in the honourable toil of his profession—according tohis wish, in mother earth, beneath a tree which markedout the site of an intended church that would afterwardsenclose his grave: the whole Russian population joiningin the last token of respect to his memory. A change of officers took place in consequence of hisdeath : Captain Gore, from the Discovery, taking theResolution, and its first lieutenant, Mr. King, beingappointed to the command of the former. The juniorshad also their changes and promotions. Repairing the ships—sorely battered by their encounterswith arctic ice—brewing spruce beer, spearing and saltingsalmon, boiling down sea-

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