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Excerpt from The Voyages of Captain James Cook Round the World, Vol. 1 of 7: Printed Verbatim From the Original Editions, and Embellished With a Selection of the Engravings
This celebrated navigator was the son of a day iabourer, and born at Marton, a village in Yorkshire, Nov. 8. 1798. At the age of thirteen he was put to a school, where he learnt writing and arithmetic after which he was bound apprentice to a shop keeper at Snaith, but on discovering an inclination for the sea, his master gave up his indentures, and he articled himself for three years to a ship-owner at Whitby. After serving out his time diligently, he entered in 1755 on board the Eagle sixty gun ship and in 1759 he obtainedfa warrant as master of the Mercury, in which ship he was present at the taking of Quebec, where he made a complete draught of the channel and river of St. Laurence, which, chart was published. Mr. Cook was next appointed to the Northumberland, then employed in the recap ture of Newfoundland; and there also he made a survey of the harbour and coasts. At the latter end. He returned to England, andmarried a young.
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