CAPTAIN COOK.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3165, 10 April 1879, Page 2

CAPTAIN COOK.

Australians will hail with satisfaction the honors done in France to the great discoverer of their country, and will perhaps express wonder that England was unrepresented at Captain Cook's centenary. Oar journals explain the fact in our national modesty; The glory is ours, at the .feat! was performed by one of our sons, and for us to take part in the demonstration would be like patting ourselves on, t£«e back.■■ This excuse is rather a/lanje 'w$ The fact is that English prophets have less honor in their own country than prophets anywhere else.'-' ¥et Cook %ai as great a man as Columbus in hit way, and did as great a work. He was a-patriot tM" eager for the honor and credit of bis oWI nation, hot an alien sailing under a foreign flag. The man who added JNew, South Wales and New Zealand to the; British dominions, who proved that Australia wag an Island, who discovered New Caledonia and the Sandwich Islands,, is entitled to no less credit than the discoverer of the New World. It is a disgrace to England that the task of paying tribute to his great memory should have been left to our generous neighbors, the French, to per* form.,