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The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Captain Cook.

Drawn & Engraved by W. Bond, from the large Picture by George Dance R.A.

Published by Longman & Co. London Septr. 6th. 1821.
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THE
 
THREE
 
VOYAGES
 
OF
 
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK
 
ROUND THE WORLD.
COMPLETE
In Seven Volumes.
WITH MAP AND OTHER PLATES.
VOL. I.
BEING THE FIRST OF THE FIRST VOYAGE.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1821.
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LIFE
 
OF
 
CAPTAIN JAMES COOK.
This celebrated navigator was the son of a day-labourer,and born at Marton, a village in Yorkshire,Nov. 3. 1728. At the age of thirteen he was put toa school, where he learnt writing and arithmetic;after which he was bound apprentice to a shopkeeperat Snaith, but on discovering an inclinationfor the sea, his master gave up his indentures, andhe articled himself for three years to a ship-owner atWhitby. After serving out his time diligently, heentered in 1755 on board the Eagle sixty gun ship;and in 1759 he obtained a warrant as master of theMercury, in which ship he was present at the takingof Quebec, where he made a complete draughtof the channel and river of St. Laurence, whichchart was published. Mr. Cook was next appointedto the Northumberland, then employed in the recaptureof Newfoundland; and there also he made asurvey of the harbour and coasts. At the latter endof 1762 he returned to England, and married a youngviwoman of Barking; but early in the next year hewent again to Newfoundland, as surveyor, with CaptainGraves, and he afterwards acted in the samecapacity under Sir Hugh Palliser. While thus employed,he made an observation of an eclipse of thesun, which he communicated to the Royal Society.It being determined to send out astronomers to observethe transit of Venus in some part of the SouthSea, Mr. Cook was selected to command the Endeavour,a ship taken up for that service; and accordinglyhe was promoted to the rank of lieutenant,May 25. 1768. Our limits will not allow of givingthe details of this interesting voyage; and thereforewe shall content ourselves with stating, that thetransit was observed to great advantage at Otaheite;after which lieutenant Cook explored the neighbouringislands, and then shaped his course for New Zealand,which he circumnavigated, and thus ascertainedthat it was not a continent. From thence he sailedto New Holland, or, as it is now called, New SouthWales, where he anchored in Botany Bay, April 28.1770, an                         
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