Some of Cook's bones were recovered and consigned to the deep by the officers of the ships.
Small blame should attach to the natives for the killing of Cook.
They treated him well.

In return, he abused them.

He and his men inflicted bodily injury upon many of them at different times, and killed at least three of them before they offered any proportionate retaliation.
Near the shore we found "Cook's Monument"-- only a cocoanut stump, four feet high and about a foot in diameter at the butt.

It had lava boulders piled around its base to hold it up and keep it in its place, and it was entirely sheathed over, from top to bottom, with rough, discolored sheets of copper, such as ships' bottoms are coppered with.

Each sheet had a rude inscription scratched upon it--with a nail, apparently--and in every case the execution was wretched.