Every one may not be able to perceive the literary charm which certain eulogists have been privileged to find in Cook's admirable record of interesting facts.

But he may well seem great enough as a discoverer and observer, to be easily able to survive a worse style--say Hawkesworth's.

He found New Zealand a line on the map, and left it an Archipelago, a feat which many generations of her colonists will value above the shaping of sentences.

The feature of his experiences which most strikes the reader now, is the extraordinary courage and pugnacity of the natives.

They took the _Endeavour_ for a gigantic white-winged sea-bird, and her pinnace for a young bird.