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PREFACE 



the general public, incorporating them with Cook's Journal, 

 often without allusion to their author, and not unfrequently 

 introducing into them reflections of his own as being those 

 of Cook or of Banks. Fortunately the recent publication 

 by Admiral Wharton of Cook's own Journal l has helped to 

 rectify this, for any one comparing the two narratives can 

 have no difficulty in recognising the source whence Hawkes- 

 worth derived his information. 



Another motive for editing Banks's Journal is to empha- 

 sise the important services which its author rendered to 

 the expedition. It needs no reading between the lines of 

 the great navigator's Journal, to discover his estimation of 

 the ability of his companion, of the value of his researches, 

 and of the importance of his active co-operation on many 

 occasions. It was Banks who rapidly mastered the lan- 

 guage of the Otahitans and became the interpreter of the 

 party, and who was the investigator of the customs, habits, 

 etc., of these and of the natives of New Zealand. It was 

 often through his activity that the commissariat was sup- 

 plied with food. He was on various occasions the thief- 

 taker, especially in the case of his hazardous expedition for 

 the recovery of the stolen quadrant, upon the use of which, 

 in observing the transit of Venus across the sun's disc, the 

 success of the expedition so greatly depended. And, above 

 all, it is to Banks's forethought and at his own risk that an 

 Otahitan man and boy were taken on board, through whom 

 Banks directed, when in New Zealand, those inquiries 

 into the customs of its inhabitants, which are the founda- 



from Prior's Life of Malone : " Hawkesworth, the writer, was introduced by 

 Garrick to Lord Sandwich, who, thinking to put a few hundred pounds into 

 his pocket, appointed him to revise and publish Cook's Voyages. He 

 scarcely did anything to the MSS., yet sold it to Cadell and Strahan, the 

 printer and bookseller, for 6000. ..." 



1 Captain Cook's Journal during Ms First Voyage round the World in 

 H.M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71, with Notes and Introduction by Captain 

 W. J. L. Wharton, R.N., F.R.S., Hydrographer of the Admiralty. 



