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fragment of the original Journal on which the copy was based. 

 But then comes a gap of thirteen days. Then very slight entries 

 for October 24th and 25th. Then a brief enumeration of the 

 characteristics of the Maoris. Then very slight entries from 

 October 3oth to November 5th. Then a list of points to be 

 noticed in description of an unnamed Bay, and of the River 

 Thames. Then slight entries from November 25th to 27th. I 

 get the impression that these pages are a fragment of Cook's first 

 rough notes, afterwards worked into the lost Journal, which the 

 clerk copied. 



(b) There are also in the Australian Museum Cook's autograph 

 observations of the Transit of Venus, the autograph " Rules " 

 to be observed at Tahiti, a scrap from an autograph Journal of the 

 second voyage, and several very important autograph letters. Fragments. 

 Though these documents have no history, I am confident that 

 they are authentic. There exists, somewhere in England, a page 

 in Cook's handwriting, which records the events of three days 

 (4th, 5th, and 6th May), at Botany Bay. The name Stingray 

 Bay is corrected to Botanist Bay. Mr. Kitson, in the 1912 

 popular edition of his life of Cook (p, 149), describes this page 

 as " the only page known to exist of the Journal of the first 

 voyage written by Cook." I have not seen this page ; but the 

 facsimile shows that the record is very much shorter than that 

 of the copy. I again get the impression that, like the pages in 

 the Australian Museum, this is a. fragment, not of Cook's 

 Journal, but of rough notes that were afterwards expanded 

 into the Journal. It certainly seems curious that this one page 

 a particularly interesting page should alone survive. But it 

 seems to be authentic. 



3. COPIES OF COOK'S JOURNAL. There are three copies of Copies. 

 Cook's Journal. 



(a) There is a copy which was appropriated by Sir Philip Corner 

 Stephens, the Secretary of the Admiralty, and which eventually Journal, 

 came by sale to Mr. Corner, who determined to print it. It 

 was edited by Admiral Wharton in 1893. It stops at the arrival 

 at Batavia. I have carefully examined it, and I have found no 

 reason to question the accepted opinion that it is the copy which 

 Cook sent to Stephens from that port. It is in the handwriting 

 of a clerk. But there are corrections in Cook's hand. Under 

 I4th June, 1770, there is a curious marginal note in Cook's hand 

 (see photo, p. 383). A good many corrections of names of places 

 have been made ; sometimes, in my opinion, in the hand of the 

 clerk who wrote the Journal, and sometimes in other hands. Mr. 

 Bonwick's criticisms of this Journal in his booklet, Cook in New 

 South Wales, do not seem to me to be well-founded. The change of 

 geographical names, e.g. the change of " Stingray " to " Botany," 

 does not affect the historical value of the Journal. On the 

 contrary, the erased Stingray would suffice to prove, if proof 



