ROUND THE WORLD WITH CAPTAIN COOK 27 



pickled salmon, which even the pigs on board would 

 not touch. 



Banks still did what he could to promote the new 

 Expedition. The naturalists were John Reinhold Forster 

 and his son Georg. Both of these were really scientific 

 men ; and later, after their return to Germany, acquired 

 deserved fame for their philosophical writings. The 

 father had come to England in 1766, with a young family, 

 and had a rough struggle for existence, until he came 

 under the patronage of Daines Barrington, Thomas 

 Pennant, and other votaries of Natural Science. 



One inevitable result of the exploit of Captain Cook 

 was the appearance in the air of the literary birds of 

 prey. There was money to be made out of the Tale. 

 In the magazines and elsewhere there were feeble attempts 

 made to anticipate the authentic narrative, a circumstance 

 which caused some annoyance to Mr. Banks and his 

 friends. 



besides nine servants, all practised and taught by myself to collect and 

 preserve such objects of Natural History as might occur ; three of 

 whom had already been with me on my last voyage. Besides this I had 

 had influence enough to prevail with the Board of Longitude to send 

 with us Messrs. Bailey and Wales as astronomers, and also with the 

 House of Commons to give 4000 to enable Dr. Lind of Gorgie, re- 

 markable for his knowledge in Natural Philosophy and Mechanicks, to 

 accompany us. 



" These gentlemen, except only the astronomers who did not at all 

 belong to me, were to a man so well convinced of the impossibility of 

 our going out in the state the ship was now reduced to, that they all 

 refused with me, and so well were they satisfied with my conduct that 

 though I believe every one but Dr. Solander was separately tampered 

 with to embark without me, not one would at all listen to any pro- 

 posals which could be offered to them. 



" Upon my refusal to go out, the ships were ordered to proceed, and 

 in order to do as much as possible even in the branch of Natural History, 

 Mr. Forster, a gentleman known to the learned world by his translations 

 of several books, was engaged under the immediate protection of the 

 King ; and, soon after, Mr. William Hodges, a young man who had 

 chiefly studied architecture, was joined to him as Landscape and Figure 

 Painter. With those gentlemen on board, the ships Resolution and 

 Adventure sailed from Plymouth on the I2th of July, 1772. In the 

 meantime I had received several overtures from the East India Com- 

 pany, who seemed inclined to send me on the same kind of voyage the 

 next spring." 



