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of the Journal, and to write 

 "Botany" for "Stingray"; and 

 when Cook drew his final map 

 of the Bay he entitled it "A 

 Sketch of Botany Bay." Banks 

 also, somewhat carelessly, turned 

 over the pages of his own journal, 

 in which in several places he had 

 written " Stingray Bay." In two 

 places i he corrected " Stingray " 

 to " Botany " ; but in two 

 places " Stingray " escaped his 

 eye, and still stands to prove 

 that it held its own to the 

 departure from New Holland. 2 

 And on the vacant top of the 

 pages on which he had written 

 the story of the visit, he wrote 

 the headline " Botany Bay." 

 When we look through the 

 manuscript copy of Cook's 

 Journal, we observe several 

 other similar corrections. Port 



the name was changed to Botany. The 

 unfortunate clerk, when told to make 

 the Correction, spelt the word as he 

 pleased. Under 23rd May he wrote 

 " Bottonist " and " Botany " on the 

 same page. 



1 MS. Journal, vol. ii. pp. 204, 218. 

 When numbering his pages, at a later 

 date, Banks made a mistake which 

 may cause confusion. He numbered 

 p. 301, and then, turning over, numbered 

 the other side 202, and went through 

 the 200*3 again. Hence, e.g. there are 

 two pages numbered 204. The reference 

 is to the second of these pages. 



2 MS. Journal, vol. ii. pp. 283 and 

 288. It is curious that the name was 

 written in the passage entitled " Some 

 account of New Holland," a passage 

 which Banks must have written after 

 leaving Cape York. 



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