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now pass without notice, unless as the stalking-horse for 

 a little humour. Indeed, it would be difficult to find in 

 Hawkesworth's volumes the sources of complaint, unless 

 aided by taking down from dusty, musty shelves the 

 long-forgotten gibes. But they amounted to Disgrace, 

 with a man of finely sensitive temperament. He died 

 broken-hearted in November, 1773. 



Cook's own journal has been edited in our own time, 

 in a manner suitable to an age which demands a scientific 

 performance of such work : by Captain J. L. Wharton, 

 R.N., Hydrographer to the Admiralty (London, 1893). 



