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The Nation is indebted to Captn Cook
For
The Honor which they of having discoverd & explord so vast a Portion of the globe before unknown the benefit of which undertaking to mankind was so amply acknowledgd by other nations that amidst the Calamities of war they excepted Capt. Cooks ships as employd in a service in success of which all Europe was Equaly interested Tho the honor of it was wholly to acrue to the English.
After having been as a reward for his Publick Services in his Successful Voyages round the World placed in a Situation at home equally both comfortable and beneficial where He might have lived many years to the comfort Great Benefit of his Family he nobly voluntarily relinquished that ease to undertake Another Voyage whence the Life of a Comr who executes his duty must always be particularly exposed and in which in execution of that duty He fell thereby leaving His Family whom His Publick Spirit had