Abstract
ALTHOUGH the monument erected to Captain James Cook at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, is well known, little attention has been paid to two earlier memorials erected to the memory of the great circumnavigator, records which unless published and preserved are likely before long to be obliterated and forgotten. Of these, one?the earlier? is still standing, and in probably much the same condition as when originally erected. The other, equally interesting although more recent, has been destroyed by the ravages of time, though two of its original inscriptions have happily been preserved. Upon a bold lava-strewn headland, some 2 miles distant from the spot where Captain Cook fell, is to be seen a small cairn of lava boulders upon which stands a roughly hewn pole, some 8 feet above the top of the stones, bearing a small board upon which is affixed a copper plate. The inscription reads: In Memory
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