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enterprises, that their names have been handed down 

 to posterity as so many Argonauts. Nay, even the 

 hulks of the ships that carried them, though not 

 converted into constellations in the heavens, used 

 to be honoured and visited as sacred relics upon 

 earth. We, in the present age of improved navi- 

 gation, who have been instructed by their labours, 

 and have followed them as our guides, have no such 

 claim to fame. Some merit, however, being still, in 

 the public opinion, considered as due to those who 

 sail to unexplored quarters of the globe, in conformity 

 to this favourable judgment, I prefixed to the ac- 

 count of my last voyage the names of the officers of 

 both my ships, and a table of the number of their re- 

 spective crews. The like information will be expected 

 from me at present. 



The Resolution was fitted out with the same com- 

 plement of officers and men she had before ; and the 

 Discovery's establishment varied from that of the Ad- 

 venture, in the single instance of her having no 

 marine officer on board. This arrangement was to be 

 finally completed at Plymouth ; and, on the 9th, we 

 received the party of marines allotted for our voyage. 

 Colonel Bell, who commanded the division at this 

 port, gave me such men for the detachment as 1 had 

 reason to be satisfied with. And the supernumerary 

 seamen, occasioned by this reinforcement, being 

 turned over into the Ocean man-of-war, our several 

 complements remained fixed, as represented in the 

 following table : 



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