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21 - Life of Captain James Cook by Arthur Octavius Kitson · Life of Captain James Cook

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  Speaker 1: Chapter No. Eighteen of the Life of Captain James Cook,
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  Speaker 1: the Circumnavigator, by Arthur Kitson. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Chapter eighteen seventeen seventy nine to seventeen
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  Speaker 1: eighty third voyage concluded on the fourth of February. The
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  Speaker 1: ships unmoored and sailed from the bay, steering to the
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  Speaker 1: north in hopes of finding a better anchorage. The wind
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  Speaker 1: was very light, and the progress was so slow that
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  Speaker 1: it gave Terryobo an opportunity of sending off a further
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  Speaker 1: present of food. Soon after, a gale sprang up, and
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  Speaker 1: the canoes which had accompanied them beat a hasty retreat,
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  Speaker 1: leaving a good many, mostly women, on board the ships.
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  Speaker 1: About midnight, the foe and main topsail were split, but
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  Speaker 1: towards morning the wind died away and they were able
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  Speaker 1: to bend fresh sails. A second gale came on again
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  Speaker 1: at night, putting them under double reefed topsails, with top
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  Speaker 1: gallant yards sent down, and at daybreak the foremast was
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  Speaker 1: found to be so badly sprung that it was absolutely
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  Speaker 1: necessary it should be unstepped for immediate repairs after considerable hesitation,
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  Speaker 1: For he fully recognized that the place must be almost
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  Speaker 1: denuded of surplus provisions. Cook decided to return to Kuracacoa Bay,
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  Speaker 1: as no other convenient place was known, and the ships
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  Speaker 1: again anchored there on the eleventh, starting immediately to unstep
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  Speaker 1: and get the mast ashore when it was found to
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  Speaker 1: be rotten at the heel, as well as sprung would
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  Speaker 1: that had been cut at Emio for anchor stocks was
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  Speaker 1: used for fishing the head, and the work proceeded rapidly,
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  Speaker 1: the priests making the camp taboo so that there should
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  Speaker 1: be no interference with the workmen. When the ships arrived
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  Speaker 1: in the bay, hardly a canoe was to be seen,
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  Speaker 1: and none came out to the ships. This, contrasted with
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  Speaker 1: their first reception, was the cause of some surprise, and
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  Speaker 1: in view of what happened afterwards, of some suspicion. But
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  Speaker 1: mister King, who had more intercourse with the natives than
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  Speaker 1: any of the other officers, was thoroughly satisfied that they
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  Speaker 1: neither meant nor apprehended any change of conduct. Bernie says
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  Speaker 1: that Terry Obu and some of the chiefs visited them
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  Speaker 1: on the twelfth and asked many questions about their return,
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  Speaker 1: and did not seem well satisfied with the answers received
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  Speaker 1: trouble commences. Everything went smoothly till the afternoon of the thirteenth,
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  Speaker 1: when the officer in charge of the watering party complained
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  Speaker 1: to King that the conduct of some of the natives
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  Speaker 1: was suspicious and some of the chiefs were driving away
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  Speaker 1: men he had engaged to help in rolling the casks
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  Speaker 1: to the boats. King sent to marine with side arms
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  Speaker 1: to help to restore order, but shortly after it was
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  Speaker 1: informed the natives were armed with stones and getting very noisy,
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  Speaker 1: so he went down himself with a marine armed with
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  Speaker 1: his musket, and succeeded in setting matters right. Just at
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  Speaker 1: this time, Cook came ashore and King reported what had occurred,
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  Speaker 1: receiving orders to fire with ball if he received any
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  Speaker 1: insolence or stones were thrown. Soon afterwards, shots were heard
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  Speaker 1: from the Discovery and a canoe was seen making for
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  Speaker 1: the shore, closely pursued by one of the ship's boats. Cook,
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  Speaker 1: King and a marine ran to intercept them, but were
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  Speaker 1: too late, as the occupants of the canoe landed before
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  Speaker 1: they could reach the spot. Bernie says the disturbance commenced
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  Speaker 1: by a native stealing a pair of carpenter's tongs, jumped
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  Speaker 1: overboard with them and placing them in a canoe, which
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  Speaker 1: at once paddled off. The thief was caught, flogged, and
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  Speaker 1: put in irons till the tongs were returned from the shore.
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  Speaker 1: The same tongs were again stolen in the afternoon, and
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  Speaker 1: the thief got away with them. Pursued by Edgar, the
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  Speaker 1: master in the ship's cutter, and joined by the resolution's pinnace.
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  Speaker 1: The thief reached shore first, put the tongs, the lid
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  Speaker 1: of the harness cask and a chisel in a second canoe,
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  Speaker 1: which went out and handed them over to Edgar. Edgar,
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  Speaker 1: seeing Cook and King running along the shore, thought it
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  Speaker 1: right to detain the second canoe, which unfortunately belonged to Paria,
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  Speaker 1: who at the time of the theft was in cloak's
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  Speaker 1: cabin and, promising to obtain the tongs, had immediately left
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  Speaker 1: for the shore. He tried to regain possession of his canoe,
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  Speaker 1: but was knocked down by a sailor, and then some
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  Speaker 1: of the natives, who before this had been quietly looking on,
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  Speaker 1: began to throw stones and so roughly handled the sailors
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  Speaker 1: in the pinnace that, being unarmed, they beat a retreat,
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  Speaker 1: swimming to some rocks out of reach of the missiles.
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  Speaker 1: Edgar and Vancouver remained ashore and fared badly till Paria,
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  Speaker 1: who had recovered from his blow and apparently forgotten it,
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  Speaker 1: ordered his countrymen to stay their hands and managed to
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  Speaker 1: save the pinnas from being broken up. He wanted the
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  Speaker 1: boats to go back to the ships, but as the
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  Speaker 1: oars had been taken away, this was impossible. He then
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  Speaker 1: started to find them, and as soon as his back
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  Speaker 1: was turned, the throwing began again. Edgar wished to go
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  Speaker 1: to the camp to find Cook, but some of the
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  Speaker 1: natives advised him to follow them and they would take
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  Speaker 1: him to Paria. He soon met him carrying one all,
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  Speaker 1: followed by a man with a broken one, so they
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  Speaker 1: were able to make shift in the boats to the camp,
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  Speaker 1: being overtaken on the way by Paria in his canoe,
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  Speaker 1: bringing Vancouver's cap, which had been lost in the scuffle
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  Speaker 1: owing to his pursuit of the thief. Cook did not
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  Speaker 1: hear of all this trouble till after dark, too late
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  Speaker 1: to take any further steps, but King says he appeared
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  Speaker 1: very disturbed by the news and remarked I am afraid
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  Speaker 1: these people will oblige me to use some violent measures,
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  Speaker 1: for they must not be left to imagine that they
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  Speaker 1: have gained an advantage over us. He then went on
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  Speaker 1: board a ship and ordered all natives ashore, whilst King
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  Speaker 1: returned to the camp and, doubling his sentries, gave orders
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  Speaker 1: he was to be called for if any natives was
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  Speaker 1: seen about. At eleven, five were seen hovering near, but
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  Speaker 1: when they found they were observed, they made off, and
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  Speaker 1: later one got close to the observatory, but ran when
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  Speaker 1: the sentry fired over his head. When on his way
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  Speaker 1: to the ship the next morning for the chronometer, King
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  Speaker 1: was informed that the discovery's cutter had been stolen. It
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  Speaker 1: had been moored to the anchor boy. On board the resolution,
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  Speaker 1: he found Cook busy loading his double barreled gun and
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  Speaker 1: a landing party of marines being prepared. Cook said he
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  Speaker 1: was going ashore to try to gain his possession of
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  Speaker 1: some of the principal chiefs in order to keep them
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  Speaker 1: prisoners till the boat was returned, and that he had
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  Speaker 1: already sent out boats to prevent anyone leaving the bay,
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  Speaker 1: with the intention of destroying their canoes. If he could
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  Speaker 1: not recover the cutter by more peaceable means. The Resolution's
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  Speaker 1: great cutter was sent after a large sailing canoe that
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  Speaker 1: was making off The small cutter was guarding the western
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  Speaker 1: point of the bay, and Cook, with the pinnis and launch,
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  Speaker 1: were going to cow Rower to try and get Terriobu
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  Speaker 1: on board the ship. He and in fact everyone else,
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  Speaker 1: were confident the natives would offer no resistance if they
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  Speaker 1: heard the sound of but one musket. A little before
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  Speaker 1: eight o'clock, Captain Cook, Lieutenant Phillips, a sergeant corporal, and
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  Speaker 1: seven marines left the ship for cow Row, and King
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  Speaker 1: returned to his camp after being ordered to try and
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  Speaker 1: assure the natives near the observatory that they would not
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  Speaker 1: be hurt, to keep his men together, and to be
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  Speaker 1: prepared to meet any outbreak. Having seen his men were
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  Speaker 1: on the alert, Cook visited the priests and satisfied them
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  Speaker 1: that Tereobu would receive neither injury nor insult. Cook lands,
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  Speaker 1: having picked up the Resolution's launch under the command of
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  Speaker 1: Lieutenant Williamson on his way, Cook landed the marines and
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  Speaker 1: marched into the village, where he received the usual marks
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  Speaker 1: of respect. He asked to see the king and his
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  Speaker 1: two young sons. The two boys came forward and conducted
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  Speaker 1: him to the hut where their father was, and after
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  Speaker 1: a short conversation, he felt assured that Tereobu knew nothing
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  Speaker 1: about the stealing of the boat. He invited the three
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  Speaker 1: to accompany him to the resolution, and the king at
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  Speaker 1: one time consented and got up to go. However, the
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  Speaker 1: boy's mother came up with a few chiefs and tried
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  Speaker 1: to persuade him not to go, and then they got
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  Speaker 1: hold of him and forced him to sit down. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: a large crowd had gathered round, and Phillips, who seemed
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  Speaker 1: to have acted with coolness and judgment throughout the affair,
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  Speaker 1: drew up his men in line on some rocks near
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  Speaker 1: the water, about thirty yards away. After trying for some
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  Speaker 1: time to persuade the natives to allow their chief to
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  Speaker 1: go with him, Cook gave up the attempt, observing to
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  Speaker 1: Phillips that it would be impossible to compel them to
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  Speaker 1: do so without great risk of bloodshed. Unfortunately, just at
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  Speaker 1: this time news arrived that a chief of the first
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  Speaker 1: rank had been killed at the other side of the bay.
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  Speaker 1: The shots had been heard soon after the landing of
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  Speaker 1: Cook's party it was now wreckingies that matters had become
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  Speaker 1: very serious. The natives were seen to be donning their
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  Speaker 1: war mats, and one man, armed with a stone in
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  Speaker 1: one hand and a large iron spike in the other,
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  Speaker 1: threatened Cook in a very insulting manner. He was told
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  Speaker 1: to keep quiet, but only became more furious, so Cooke
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  Speaker 1: fired a charge of small shot into him, but as
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  Speaker 1: Matt saved him from injury, stones were thrown at the Marines,
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  Speaker 1: and a chief attempted to stab Phillips, but was promptly
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  Speaker 1: knocked down with the butt of the ladder's musket. Cook
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  Speaker 1: now fired his second barrel loaded with ball, and killed
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  Speaker 1: one of the natives, but Sergeant Gibson told him it
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  Speaker 1: was the wrong man, so he received orders to kill
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  Speaker 1: the right one and did so. The stone throwing became
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  Speaker 1: heavier and the Marines responded with a volley, but before
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  Speaker 1: they had time to reload, the natives rushed them, killing
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  Speaker 1: four out of the seven and wounding the rest. Philips
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  Speaker 1: being stabbed between the shoulders, but before the blow could
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  Speaker 1: be repeated, he managed to shoot his assailant. Cook's death.
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  Speaker 1: Cook was now close to the water's edge and had
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  Speaker 1: turned around to order the boat's crews to cease firing
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  Speaker 1: and pull in. This is believed to have caused his death,
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  Speaker 1: for whilst he faced the natives, none of them, except
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  Speaker 1: the one shot by Gibson, had offered him actual violence.
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  Speaker 1: But when he turned to give orders, he was struck
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  Speaker 1: on the head and stabbed in the back, falling with
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  Speaker 1: his face in a pool of water. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: he fell, a great shout arose. He was dragged ashore,
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  Speaker 1: and the natives, snatching the dagger from each other, showed
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  Speaker 1: savage eagerness to share in his destruction. Phillips and his
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  Speaker 1: wounded marines, plunged into the water and covered by musketry fire,
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  Speaker 1: gained the boats. Their officer, though wounded, jumping out again
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  Speaker 1: to the assistance of the last man, who, severely injured
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  Speaker 1: by a blow on the face, was in great danger
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  Speaker 1: of being captured. The boats, seeing that there was no
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  Speaker 1: possibility of recovering the bodies of the five who were killed,
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  Speaker 1: were ordered to return at once to the ships, from
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  Speaker 1: which they had only been absent an hour nine stand
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  Speaker 1: of arms. Cook's double barreled gun and his hangar fell
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  Speaker 1: into the hands of the natives. As soon as this
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  Speaker 1: was reported. The boats were recalled from the bay, and
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  Speaker 1: a strong reinforcement was sent to mister King with orders
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  Speaker 1: to strike his camp and get the resolution's foremast off
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  Speaker 1: to the ship. The Indians were seen to be assembling
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  Speaker 1: to the right of the tents, so the guns were
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  Speaker 1: turned on them, and a party was posted on the
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  Speaker 1: Morai to cover the place where the mast lay. About
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  Speaker 1: one o'clock, everything was got away from the shore, only
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  Speaker 1: a few stones being thrown by natives who thought their
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  Speaker 1: mats were proof against bullets and only found out their
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  Speaker 1: mistake too late. Notwithstanding what had occurred, one of the priests,
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  Speaker 1: whom Bernie calls Kerria care, remained with the English till
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  Speaker 1: everything had been removed, and supplied the men with food
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  Speaker 1: and water. King, about four o'clock was sent to try
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  Speaker 1: to recover the bodies of the captain and marines. He
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  Speaker 1: was at first received with a volley of stones, which
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  Speaker 1: fortunately fell short. He displayed a white flag and pulled
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  Speaker 1: in shore, whilst the remaining boats lay off to cover
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  Speaker 1: him with fire if needed. But the stone throwing was
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  Speaker 1: stopped and the natives also showed the white flag in
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  Speaker 1: answer to King's demand. Some of the chiefs promised that
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  Speaker 1: the body should be delivered the next day, and CoA,
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  Speaker 1: swimming off to one of the boats, explained that they
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  Speaker 1: could not be given up at once, as they had
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  Speaker 1: already been taken some distance up country. Bernie, however, says
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  Speaker 1: that they gathered from signs made by other Indians that
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  Speaker 1: the bodies had already been cut up to pieces, and
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  Speaker 1: one man came down to the water flourishing Cook's hangar
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  Speaker 1: with many tokens of exultation and defiance CoA friendly. On
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  Speaker 1: the fifteenth, Captain Clerk formally took over the command of
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  Speaker 1: the Resolution and appointed Lieutenant Gore to the discovery. During
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  Speaker 1: the day, Coha visited the ship several times and in
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  Speaker 1: vain tried to persuade Clerk or King to go ashore,
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  Speaker 1: but it was thought inadvisable to run any further risks.
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  Speaker 1: In the evening, Kerriakair and a friend came off in
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  Speaker 1: a small canoe, bringing a bundle containing the flesh of
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  Speaker 1: Cook's thighs, saying that the body had been burned and
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  Speaker 1: the limbs distributed amongst the chiefs. They had brought all
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  Speaker 1: they could get, unknown to the others, and karaakare strongly
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  Speaker 1: advised Clerk not to trust too much to Coha. He
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  Speaker 1: said that the inhabitants of the island were not inclined
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  Speaker 1: for peace, except those in the immediate neighborhood, who would,
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  Speaker 1: of course, in case of hostilities, be the chief's sufferers.
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  Speaker 1: He gave the number of natives killed as twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: with a large number of wounded. On the seventeenth the
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  Speaker 1: ships were warped in shore so as to command the
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  Speaker 1: watering place. The launchers were sent in for water, with
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  Speaker 1: the other boats fully armed in support. They were received
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  Speaker 1: with showers of stones from the houses and from behind
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  Speaker 1: stone walls, notwithstanding guns fired from the ships and musketry
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  Speaker 1: from the boats at any of the natives who exposed themselves. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Koa again visited the ships, offering a pig as a
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  Speaker 1: present and asking for someone to be sent ashore for
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  Speaker 1: the bodies, but he was sent away and was soon
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  Speaker 1: afterwards seen amongst the stone throwers. In the afternoon, the
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  Speaker 1: boats went out again for water, but as the natives
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  Speaker 1: recommenced hostilities, they were ordered to keep clear whilst the
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  Speaker 1: ship's guns were worked for a quarter of an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Then the boats crews landed and burned all the houses
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  Speaker 1: between the watering place and the Marrai, killing some six
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  Speaker 1: or seven of the natives. In the evening, about five o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: some dozen natives bearing white flags and sugar cane marched
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  Speaker 1: down to the beach, headed by Karaakair, carrying a small pig.
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  Speaker 1: He said he came as an envoy from Tereobu to
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  Speaker 1: make peace, and was accordingly taken on board the Resolution.
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  Speaker 1: It was ascertained from him that the boat had been
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  Speaker 1: stolen by some of Paria's people and had been broken
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  Speaker 1: up after Cook's death. During the night, some canoes came
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  Speaker 1: out and did a little trading, and the next morning
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  Speaker 1: the bay was seen to be planted with white flags
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  Speaker 1: in different directions, and the waders were allowed to work unmolested,
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  Speaker 1: whilst Karayakair asked permission, at once granted to make an
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  Speaker 1: offering to one of the images on the Mordai. Soon after,
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  Speaker 1: Koha came off with a pig, but was not admitted
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  Speaker 1: to either ship. He then went to the waterers, who
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  Speaker 1: sent him away. So he amused himself by throwing stones
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  Speaker 1: at a small party of sailors on the Morrei, and
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  Speaker 1: drew a couple of shots from them, but escaped unhurt.
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  Speaker 1: Soon after, a party of natives marched down to the
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  Speaker 1: beach with bread, fruit, et cetera, which they left on
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  Speaker 1: the beach and was afterwards taken on board a chief
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  Speaker 1: Iapo carried a message on board from Tereobu and the
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  Speaker 1: next day brought presents of food. On the twentieth the
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  Speaker 1: foremast of the Resolution was stepped and rigging commenced, and
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the day a large body of
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  Speaker 1: natives marched in procession to the watering place, beating drums, yelling,
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  Speaker 1: carrying white flag, sugar cane, et cetera, with Eopu at
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  Speaker 1: their head bearing a parcel wrapped in cloth containing some
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  Speaker 1: of Cook's bones. He went off to the Resolution with clerk,
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  Speaker 1: and soon after a boat was sent ashore for a
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  Speaker 1: present of food from Tereobu. The next day, with the
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  Speaker 1: same ceremonial, Iopu again appeared with all the remaining bones
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  Speaker 1: it was possible to recover, and was this time accompanied
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  Speaker 1: by Kroa, Teriobu's youngest son. The twenty first February, at sunset,
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  Speaker 1: the Resolution fired ten minute guns with the colors half
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  Speaker 1: staff up. When the remains of our late commander were
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  Speaker 1: committed to the deep. Lieutenant Williamson was severely blamed by
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  Speaker 1: his brother officers for not going to the assistance of
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  Speaker 1: the pinnace at the time of the attack on his captain,
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  Speaker 1: and it is said that, had it not been for
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  Speaker 1: Clerk's ill health, he would have been tried for court martial.
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  Speaker 1: He was, afterwards, when in command of the Agent, tried
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  Speaker 1: for disaffection, cowardice, disobedience to signals, and not having done
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  Speaker 1: his duty in rendering all assistance possible. He was found
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  Speaker 1: guilty on the last two counts only, and was placed
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom of the list of post captains, and
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  Speaker 1: rendered incapable of ever serving on board of any of
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  Speaker 1: His Majesty's ships. Cook's remains Alice, in his tour through Hawaii,
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  Speaker 1: says that King's account of Cook's death, from which the
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  Speaker 1: above has been largely drawn, agrees in a remarkable manner
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  Speaker 1: with that given by the natives. They in no way
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  Speaker 1: blame their visitors for what occurred, and even after his death,
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  Speaker 1: appear to have looked upon Cook as a man of
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  Speaker 1: a superior race to themselves. His breastbone and ribs were
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  Speaker 1: long preserved as relics, and in eighteen thirty two. Allis
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  Speaker 1: states that there were many living who remembered the occasion,
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  Speaker 1: and all agreed that Cook's conduct to their countrymen was humane.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Clerk says, upon examining the remains of my late
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  Speaker 1: honored and much lamented friend, I found all his bones
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  Speaker 1: except those of the back, jaw, and feet. The two
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  Speaker 1: latter articles air Poe brought me in the morning. The former,
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  Speaker 1: he declared, had been reduced to ashes with the trunk
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  Speaker 1: of the body. As Keryacare had told us. The flesh
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  Speaker 1: was taken from all the bones except those of the hands,
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  Speaker 1: the skin of which they had cut through in many
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  Speaker 1: places and salted, with the intention no doubt of preserving them.
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  Speaker 1: Air Poe likewise brought with him the two barrels of
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  Speaker 1: Captain Cook's gun, the one beat flat with the intention
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  Speaker 1: of making a cutting instrument of it, the other a
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  Speaker 1: good deal bent and bruised, together with a present of
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  Speaker 1: thirteen hogs from Tereobu. The hands, as has been mentioned before,
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  Speaker 1: were identified by the scar left by the explosion of
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  Speaker 1: his powder flask in Newfoundland, which almost severed the thumb
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  Speaker 1: from the fingers on the twenty second of February, they
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  Speaker 1: were able to sail from this unlucky place, and, touching
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  Speaker 1: at one or two of the islands, worked their way
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  Speaker 1: northward to Kamchatska, the resolution, reaching Otwatska Bay on the
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth of April, followed by the discovery on the
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  Speaker 1: first of May. They were very handsomely treated by Major Beam,
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  Speaker 1: the governor of Bolshirsk, a place about one hundred thirty
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  Speaker 1: five miles from the town of Saint Peter and Saint
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  Speaker 1: Paul in Awatska Bay. Notwithstanding mister Ismailov's letter of introduction
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  Speaker 1: were on somewhat unsatisfactory lines. Mister Webber was fortunately able
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  Speaker 1: to converse in German, which the Russian officers understood, and
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  Speaker 1: he ascertained that Ismaeliov had represented the two vessels as
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  Speaker 1: very small and hinted that he believed them to be
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  Speaker 1: little better than pirates. The governor provided the ships with
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  Speaker 1: what he could give them, and promised to obtain further
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  Speaker 1: stores from Okotsk for them against their return. For these kindnesses,
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  Speaker 1: the English could make but little return, and even then
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  Speaker 1: it was with difficulty that the Russians could be persuaded
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  Speaker 1: to receive anything. For they said they were only acting
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  Speaker 1: up to the wishes of their Empress, who desired all
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  Speaker 1: her allies should be treated with courtesy. One return, however,
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  Speaker 1: they were able to make, which was of great service.
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  Speaker 1: At the time of the visit of the ships, a
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  Speaker 1: large number of soldiers and inhabitants were suffering very seriously
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  Speaker 1: from scurvy, and clerk At once put them under the
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  Speaker 1: care of his medical officers, who, by the use of
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  Speaker 1: sauerkraut and sweetwort made from the ship's stock of malt,
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  Speaker 1: soon caused a surprising alteration in the figures of most
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  Speaker 1: of them, and their speedy recovery was chiefly attributed to
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  Speaker 1: the effects of the sweetwort. They were informed by the
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  Speaker 1: Major that on the day of the arrival of the
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  Speaker 1: English party at Bolshirsk, he had received a letter from
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  Speaker 1: the most northerly outpost on the Sea of Arkotsk, stating
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  Speaker 1: that the tribe of Tashutski, which had been long at
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  Speaker 1: feud with the Russians, had sent in an embassy offering
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  Speaker 1: friendship and tribute, giving as a reason that they had
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  Speaker 1: been visited by two large vessels in the preceding summer
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  Speaker 1: and had been received on board with great kindness, and
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  Speaker 1: had entered into a league of friendship with their visitors.
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  Speaker 1: They therefore thought it their duty to ratify this treaty. Formerly,
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  Speaker 1: these two ships could have been none other than the
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  Speaker 1: Resolution and Discovery, though evidently that Tishutski thought they were Russian.
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  Speaker 1: Death of Clerk leaving on the thirteenth of June the
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  Speaker 1: Asiatic coast was followed up, and on the first of
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  Speaker 1: July they were off the Gulf of Ander, where fogs
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  Speaker 1: and ice began seriously to interfere with their progress. So
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: they abandoned the Asiatic for the American side, but with
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  Speaker 1: no better luck. They reached the latitude of seventy degrees
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  Speaker 1: thirty three minutes north, about five leagues short of the
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  Speaker 1: point reached the previous year, and at length, realizing further
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  Speaker 1: efforts were useless and resulting in serious damage to the
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  Speaker 1: ships from continual contact with the loose ice, Clerk determined
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  Speaker 1: to return to Awatska Bay and refit, and then return
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  Speaker 1: to England. On the twenty second of August, the day
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  Speaker 1: before they reached the bay, Captain Clerk, who had long
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  Speaker 1: been suffering from serious ill health, died and was buried
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  Speaker 1: under a tree A little to the north of the
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  Speaker 1: post of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, the crews of
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  Speaker 1: both ships and the Russian garrison taking part in the
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  Speaker 1: funeral ceremony, and the Russian priest reading the service at
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  Speaker 1: the grave. Clerk had been all three voyages with Cook
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  Speaker 1: and was only thirty eight years of age. Gore now
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  Speaker 1: took command of the resolution, Bernie, Rickman and Lanyon being
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  Speaker 1: his loutene tennants, whilst King was a new captain of
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  Speaker 1: their discovery, and Williamson and Hervey his lieutenants. Bailey going
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  Speaker 1: with Gore in charge of the astronomical observations. On the
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  Speaker 1: ninth of October, they left a Watska and were off
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  Speaker 1: Cape Namboo, Japan on the twenty sixth, but were driven
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  Speaker 1: off the coast by bad weather and anchored in Macau
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  Speaker 1: Roads on the first of December. Here, after considerable delay,
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  Speaker 1: stores were obtained from Canton, and the seamen managed to
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  Speaker 1: dispose of most of the furs they had obtained in
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  Speaker 1: the north. King estimates that the two ships received in
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  Speaker 1: money and goods as much as twenty thousand pounds for
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  Speaker 1: the skins, and says that the men were so anxious
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  Speaker 1: to return for more that they were almost in a
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  Speaker 1: state of mutiny. On the eleventh of April, the ships
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  Speaker 1: reached the Cape, where the officers were cordially received by
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  Speaker 1: Governor Plattenberg, who expressed the deepest regret to hear of
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  Speaker 1: the loss of Cook and requested that he should be
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  Speaker 1: sent a portrait of the captain to place in a
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  Speaker 1: blank space. He pointed out between two portraits of de
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  Speaker 1: Reuter and Van Tropp a gracious compliment. Sailing from Simon's
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  Speaker 1: Bay on the ninth of May, the trades were picked
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  Speaker 1: up on the fourteenth, and on the thirteenth of June
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  Speaker 1: the line was crossed in longitude twenty six degrees sixteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes west. The coast of Ireland was sighted on the
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  Speaker 1: twelfth of August, and an attempt was made to get
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  Speaker 1: into Galway Bay, but strong southerly winds drove them to
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the north, and at length rounding the north of Scotland,
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  Speaker 1: they put into Stromness, whence Captain King was dispatched overland
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  Speaker 1: the Admiralty. The ships arrived off the now on the
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  Speaker 1: fourteenth of October, after an absence of four years, two
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  Speaker 1: months and twenty two days. King meets King on the
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  Speaker 1: fourteenth of February seventeen eighty one, the second anniversary of
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  Speaker 1: Cook's death, King, accompanied by mister Banks, was presented to
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  Speaker 1: His Majesty, who was pleased to accept the journals of
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  Speaker 1: the resolution and discovery kept during this eventful voyage. End
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  Speaker 1: of Chapter eighteen