He was a young man of a cultivated understanding and agreeable manners, and was well skilled in his own profession; besides which, he had acquired a considerable degree of knowledge in other branches of science.

How useful an assistant he was to Captain Cook, hath often appeared in the present narrative.

Had his life been spared, the public would undoubtedly have received from him such communications, on various parts of the natural history of the several places that had been visited, as would justly have entitled him to very high commendation.

The proofs of his abilities that now remain, will hand down the name of Anderson, in conjunction with that of Cook, to posterity.

Soon after he had breathed his last, land having been seen at a distance, which was supposed to be an island, our commander honoured it with the appellation of Anderson's Island.