Oree's last request to Captain Cook was, that he would return; and when he could not obtain a promise to that effect, he asked the name of his burying-place.

To this strange question the captain answered, without hesitation, that it was Stepney; that being the parish in which he lived when in London.

Mr.Forster, to whom the same question was proposed, replied with greater wisdom and recollection, that no man, who used the sea, could say where he should be buried.
As our commander could not promise, or even then suppose, that more English ships would be sent to the southern isles, Oedidee, who for so many months had been the faithful companion of our navigators, chose to remain in his native country.

But he left them with a regret fully demonstrative of his esteem and affection, nor could any thing have torn him from them, but the fear of never returning.

When Oree pressed so ardently Captain Cook's return, he sometimes gave such answers, as left room for hope.