Captain Cook's voyages (1908)
Author: Cook, James, 1728-1779; Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848
Subject: Cook, James, 1728-1779; Voyages around the world; Oceania -- Description and travel
Language: English
FIRST
VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
Distinguished as this country is, and ever has been, for
its able navigators, it acquires no inconsiderable accession
of fame from boasting of the name of Cook, whose three
principal voyages we are now about to detail in an unbroken
series.
This able and most amiable man was born at Marton,
in Cleveland, a village about four miles from Great Ayton,
in Yorkshire, on the 27th of October, 1728. His father,
who lived in the humble station of a farmer's servant,
married a woman in the same sphere of life with himself ;
and both were noted in their neighbourhood for their
honesty, sobriety, good conduct, and industry, qualities
which ever reflect a lustre on the humblest ranks.
When our navigator was about two years old, his father
removed to Great Ayton, and was appointed to superintend
a considerable farm known by the name of Airyholm,
belonging to Thomas Scottowe, Esq.
f As the father long continued in this trust, the son
naturally followed the same employment, as far as his
tender years would admit. His early education appears
to have been slight ; but at the age of thirteen we find
him placed under the tuition of one, Mr. Pullen, who
taught school at Ayton, where he learned the rudiments
of arithmetic and book-keeping, and is said to have shown
a remarkable facility in acquiring the science of numbers.
Author: Cook, James, 1728-1779; Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848
Subject: Cook, James, 1728-1779; Voyages around the world; Oceania -- Description and travel
Language: English
FIRST
VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
Distinguished as this country is, and ever has been, for
its able navigators, it acquires no inconsiderable accession
of fame from boasting of the name of Cook, whose three
principal voyages we are now about to detail in an unbroken
series.
This able and most amiable man was born at Marton,
in Cleveland, a village about four miles from Great Ayton,
in Yorkshire, on the 27th of October, 1728. His father,
who lived in the humble station of a farmer's servant,
married a woman in the same sphere of life with himself ;
and both were noted in their neighbourhood for their
honesty, sobriety, good conduct, and industry, qualities
which ever reflect a lustre on the humblest ranks.
When our navigator was about two years old, his father
removed to Great Ayton, and was appointed to superintend
a considerable farm known by the name of Airyholm,
belonging to Thomas Scottowe, Esq.
f As the father long continued in this trust, the son
naturally followed the same employment, as far as his
tender years would admit. His early education appears
to have been slight ; but at the age of thirteen we find
him placed under the tuition of one, Mr. Pullen, who
taught school at Ayton, where he learned the rudiments
of arithmetic and book-keeping, and is said to have shown
a remarkable facility in acquiring the science of numbers.
