Excerpt from Captain Cook's Voyages Among the most remarkable voyages of discovery of which we have record, those made by the celebrated Captain Cook hold in popular estimation, and deservedly so, the first place. This is due as much to the magnitude and importance of his discoveries as to the interest of the incidents he details the graphic and accurate, yet simple, descriptions of the people and places he visited; and the sad fate that ultimately over took him, which has cast around his name a halo of romantic interest as one of the martyrs of scientific exploration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.