Death of Captain Cook

Abstract

ON reading a paper reprinted from the Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, vol. i. part 3, entitled “Notes on the Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands,” by William T. Brigham, A.M., I find at page 370 the following strange paragraph: “Starting from the western coast at Keálakeakua Bay—the memorable scene of Cook's punishment—the island may be described,” &c.