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ADDITIONAL APPENDIX 



TO THE LIVES OP 



SIR JOSEPH BANKS AND ADAM SMITH. 



CAPT. COOK TO MR. BANKS. 



" Wills's Coffee-house, Charing 

 " DEAR SiR, " Sunday Morning, [1768?] 



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Your very obliging letter was the first messenger 

 that conveyed to me Lord Sandwich's intentions. Promotion, 

 unsolicited, to a man in my situation in life, must convey a 

 satisfaction to the mind that is better conceived than described. 

 I had this morning the honour to wait upon his Lordship, 

 who renewed his promises to me, and in so obliging and 

 polite a manner as convinced me he approved of the voyage. 

 The reputation I may have acquired on this account, by which 

 I shall receive promotion, calls to my mind the very great 

 assistance I received therein from you, which will ever be 

 remembered with most grateful acknowledgments by, 



"Dear Sir, 



" Your most obliged humble servant, 

 "JAMES COOK." 



CAPT. COOK TO MR. BANKS. 



" SlR a " Sheerness, 2nd June, 1/72. 



" I received your letter by one of your people, acquaint- 

 ing me that you had ordered everything belonging to you to 

 be removed out of the ship, and desiring my assistance therein. 

 "I hope, Sir, you will find this done to your satisfaction, 

 and with that care the present hurry and confused state of 

 the ship required. Some few articles which were for the mess 

 I have kept; for which, together with the money I have re- 



