Captain Cook has pa.s.sed away, and the generation of men, with those whom he benefited and those who slew him, has gone to its account, but the coral islands remain as they were of old, resplendent with the beautiful works of G.o.d, though not, _as of old_, marred so terribly by the diabolical devices of man. "Cannibal Islands" some of them still are, without doubt, but a large proportion of them have been saved from heathen darkness by the light of G.o.d"s Truth as revealed in the Holy Bible, and many thousands of islanders--including the descendants of those who slew the great Captain of the last generation--have enrolled themselves under the banner of the "Captain of our salvation," and are now, through G.o.d"s mercy, clothed and in their right mind.
THE END.