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ready to deliver up to you, and to pay you 30 more on 

 account of your drawings, which I value at 50, whenever 

 you choose to consent to give me a receipt for that sum 

 as their price ; as I do not think it proper to insist upon 

 the right to them which I derive from your having made 

 me a present of them, or while your circumstances are 

 so much confined. 



" The only service you could do me would be by enter- 

 ing into a plan to revenge yourself of the bookseller for 

 his Judaic treatment. If you would heartily join in it I 

 would assist. Your humble servant," etc. 



About this time there appeared at Berne (in French) 

 and at Gottingen (in German) Voyage autour du monde 

 avec le Capitaine Cook, par Henri Zimmermann. There 

 is no copy in the British Museum. But the title appears 

 in Boucher's List. It is a curiosity, because the name 

 does not occur anywhere except in a letter from the 

 Rev. Michael Lort to Rev. George Ashby (May 4, 1784), 

 yet ought to be of great interest : 



" When abroad last summer I bought a French account 

 of the voyage by one Zimmermann, a Swiss who was on 

 board the whole time. Sir Joseph Banks, to whom I lent 

 it, was much pleased with it, and told me it contained 

 some curious particulars not in the larger work." 



John Ledyard followed, with a Journal of Captain 

 Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Ocean, published at Hart- 

 ford, Connecticut, 1783. 



David Samwell, surgeon of the Discovery, essayed a 

 description of the last voyage ; but only part of it was 

 published : A Narrative of the Death of Captain Cook. . . . 

 London, 1786. The remainder of the work is still in MS. 

 (Egerton MSS., 2591.) 



Lastly, there is an unpublished MS. in the British 

 Museum of A Journal of a voyage undertaken to the South 

 Seas on Discoveries, by His Majesty's Ships " Resolution " 



