...this, a chief from behind stabbed him with one of our iron daggers, just under the shoulder blade, and it passed quite through his body. Cook fell with...his sword, and, engaging the chief whom he saw kill Cook,soon despatched him. His guard, in the mean, time, were all killed but two, and they had plunged...

...the margin of the water, between the fire of the boats, waved with his hat for them to cease firing ; and while he was doing this, a chief from behind stabbed...with his face in the water and immediately expired." If Ledyard's original diary had been saved, we should doubtless have an account of the long voyage...

...pressed upon by the chiefs, they joined the guard, who fired as they retreated. Cook, having at last reached the margin of the water, between the fire...not being able any longer to use his fusee, drew his 10 00 I a o X ss1 o o g <J o 05 5 o O £** - I sword, and engaging the chief whom he saw kill Cook,...

...doing this a chief stabbed him from behind with an iron dagger (procured in traffic with the sailors), just under the shoulder-blade, and it passed quite...with his face in the water and immediately expired. The native account says that after Cook had shot two men, he struck a stalwart chief with the flat...