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in his " Guide to the principal manuscripts in the Auckland 

 Free Public Library " ; and photographs of some pages have 

 been sent to the Mitchell Library. The three documents are : 

 (i) an account of the islands in the South Seas, including a separate 

 account of Tahiti, which is dated March 1769 ; (ii) a Journal 

 dated from October 1769 to October 1770, which seems to be a 

 digest of Cook's Journal ; (iii) a Log of the voyage from Batavia 

 to England, which ends on gth July, 1771. It seems to me 

 certain that these three documents formed the one item described, 

 very inaccurately, in Sotheby's Catalogue, as the " Journal," 

 and sold as lot 176, for j 2S. 6d. They are still in " quarto 

 sheets in folds unbound " ; save the description of Tahiti, which 

 is on a foolscap folio sheet. One may guess that, during the 

 tedious voyage, Banks passed the time in writing these docu- 

 ments, but, when he came home, did not think it worth while 

 to bind them. 



4. THE JOURNAL OF PARKINSON, Banks's botanical draughts- Parkinson, 

 man, has interesting illustrations, but adds little information of 



value. 



5. On the 28th September, 1771, a publisher named Becket Magra. 

 published a Journal of a Voyage Round the World, written by one 



of the voyagers, who, Becket was convinced, was " a gentleman 

 and a scholar." My guess is that the anonymous author was 

 James Magra, the American midshipman who, twelve years 

 later, with name changed to Matra, brought forward, after 

 consultation with Banks, a noteworthy proposal for the foundation 

 of a colony in New South Wales. This Journal, however, is of 

 very little historical importance. The most noteworthy facts 

 are that, to the writer, Botany Bay is " Stingray Harbour," and 

 that he does not write " New South Wales." 



6. HAWKESWORTH'S VOYAGES OF COOK. As the Journals of Hawkes- 

 Cook and Banks were not considered to be sufficiently literary worth, 

 for print, and as neither had time to prepare them for the press, 



they were handed to Hawkesworth to be used as the basis of a 

 narrative which he put into the mouth of Cook. It has no use 

 to those who have read the Journals. 



7. The only valuable early Life of Cook is that by Dr. George Young. 

 Young (1835), a former Vicar of Whitby, who resided for thirty 

 years " near the spot where Cook was born, and amidst the 

 scenes where he passed his childhood and youth " ; and who had 



" intercourse with his relations, friends and acquaintances, 

 including one or two surviving school companions." 



8. BROUGHAM'S LIFE OF SIR JOSEPH BANKS (in Lives of Men of Brougham. 

 Letters and Science who Flourished in the Time of George III.} 



gets value from the fact that Brougham's father was a school 

 chum of Banks, and that " in consequence of this old connexion " 

 Brougham had interesting conversations with Banks in his old 

 age. 



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