COMMON FRIENDS OF MANKIND

Following the death of Captain Cook, fresh adversity met the grief-stricken sailors in their second Arctic probe. Yet the benefits of Cook's third voyage reach to our day. A chapter from Richard Aulie's completed account of this epic achievement.

Introduction
Contending With Adversity
Generosity At Petropavlovsk
     Avacha Bay
     The Governor of Kamchatka
Along The Ice
     The Barrier
     Another Narrow Escape
The Death Of Clerke
     August 22-29
     The Departure
The Fur Trade
     Diplomacy
     A Bull Market
     "Common Friends Of Mankind"
Going Home
Footnotes


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