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world. This voyage owed much to Sir Joseph Banks's 

 princely liberality. He expended upon it no less a sum 

 than £10,000. To Dr. Solander he paid £400 per annum 

 during the voyage. 



I have said that only last year did Cook's original jour- 

 nal see the light of day through the press. To Captain 

 Wharton, Hydrographer to the Admiralty, are we indebted 

 for this. It appears that Cook kept his journal in triplicate, 

 in obedience to a requirement of the service. These copies 

 were written by Orton, his clerk, but they have many addi- 

 tions and interlineations in Cook's own handwriting. One of 

 them was forwarded to the Admiralty from Batavia, and is, 

 of course, complete only to the date of arrival at that port. 

 This copy had been evidently appropriated by Sir Philip 

 Stephens, Secretary to the Admiralty ; from him it passed 

 to his descendants, was sold in 1868 to Mr. Cosens, and 

 again sold in 1890 to Mr. John Corner. The second copy 

 is now in the possession of the Admiralty, though for some 

 years it was missing ; and the third copy is the property of 

 the Queen. It is from Mr. Corner's copy, collated with that 

 of the Admiralty, that Captain Wharton's volume has been 

 edited, and it contains all the odd spelling, shrewd remarks, 

 and quaint composition of the original ; much-abused Dr. 

 Hawkesworth is evidently and entirely absent. On this, his 

 first voyage, Cook spent nearly six months in and around 

 New Zealand, from the 6th October, 1769, to the 31st March, 

 1770. His chart or map of New Zealand, which appears in 

 Hawkesworth's account, has won the praise of all for its 

 accuracy. Curiously, he placed the North Island 30min. and 

 the South Island 40min. too far east. The site of Welling- 

 ton is placed on the Wairarapa plains, that of Dunedin forty 

 miles out to sea. This error was corrected on the second 

 voyage. 



The second voyage was undertaken on a much more 

 extensive scale than the first, and the literature connected 

 with it is correspondingly extensive. Its great object was to 

 set at rest the still fervent question of the Great Southern 

 Continent, which stiil occupied men's minds, and especially 

 that of Mr. Dalrymple, who, as we have seen, put trifling 

 value on Cook's discoveries. King George, moreover, was far 

 from satisfied, and considered that the great expectations he 

 had formed had not been realized by the recent discoveries. 

 On this occasion two vessels were attached to the service — 

 the " Eesolution " and the "Adventure," the latter being 

 under the command of Captain Tobias Furneaux. To Captain 

 Cook's regret his favourite old "Endeavour" had been sent 

 to the Falkland Isles. The patriotic Sir Joseph Banks again 

 made every preparation to accompany the expedition. As 



