The bones, having been put into a coffin, and the service being read over them, were committed to the deep, on the 21st, with the usual military honours.

What were the feelings of the companies of both the ships, on this occasion, must be left to the world to conceive; for those who were present, know, that it is not in the power of any pen to express them.
A promotion of officers followed the decease of Captain Cook.

Captain Clerke having succeeded of course to the command of the expedition, removed on board the Resolution.

By him Mr.Gore was appointed captain of the Discovery, and the rest of the lieutenants obtained an addition of rank, in their proper order.

Mr.Harvey, a midshipman, who had been in the last as well as the present voyage, was promoted to the vacant lieutenancy.
Not long after Captain Cook's death, an event occurred in Europe, which had a particular relation to the voyage of our navigator, and which was so honourable to himself, and to the great nation from whom it proceeded, that it is no small pleasure to me to be able to lay the transaction somewhat at large before my readers.