widow received a pension of
200 pounds a year, and each of his children had 25 pounds a year settled
on them. Other sums were granted to his widow, and medals were struck
to commemorate his achievements, while a coat of arms was granted to his
family.

Of his six children, three died in their infancy, and the other three
were cut off in their early manhood. The second, Nathaniel, a promising
youth, was lost, when a midshipman, on board the Thunderer, in a
hurricane off Jamaica on October 3, 1780. The youngest, Hugh, was
intended for the ministry, and died at Oxford, in the seventeenth year
of his age. The eldest, James, who was in the Navy, commanded the
Spitfire sloop-of-war. He was drowned, in 1794, at the age of thirty,
when attempting to push off from Poole, during a gale of wind, to rejoin
his ship.

It is said that the bereaved mother, on receiving tidings of the death
of her last surviving son, destroyed all the letters she had received
from her husband, in the vain hope of banishing recollection of the
past. She survived, however, to the year 1835, when she died, at the
age of ninety-three.

A handsome piece of plate was presented to Major Behm, in acknowledgment
of the attention and liberality with which he treated the English in
Siberia; while gold medals were offered to the French king for his
generous orders with regard to the ships of the expedition, as also to
the Empress of Russia, as it was in her dominions, and by one of her
officers, that they had been so liberally treated.

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Note 1. It should be mentioned that Lieutenant Pickersgill was sent
out, in 1776, with directions to explore the coast of Baffin's Bay, and
that in the next year Lieutenant Young was commissioned not only to
examine the western parts of that bay, but to endeavour to find a
passage on that side from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Both
officers returned without effecting anything. The first was severely
censured for his conduct; but we who know the difficulties he would have
had to encounter may readily excuse him.

Note 2. Amongst the presents left by Cook at Mangaia was an axe,
roughly fashioned, on the ship's arrival, out of a piece of iron. It is
still treasured in the Island as a relic of his visit.

Note 3. A promotion of officers necessarily followed the death of
Captain Cook. Captain Clerke, having succeeded to the command of th