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and that if Banks did not go, it was because the 

 Spanish Ambassador had given him to under- 

 stand that his Government looked with a disap- 

 proving eye upon all exploration of the South 

 Seas. 



It was necessary to select substitutes for Banks 

 and his friends. The choice of the Admiralty 

 fell upon two German naturalists, John Forster 

 and George Forster his son, who was only 

 twenty. John Forster had a great reputation as 

 a scientist, but had a detestable nature. The son 

 in no way yielded to his father in this respect, 

 so that the two Forsters relieved a voyage which 

 was apt to be monotonous with constant com- 

 plaints and quarrels. No single member of the 

 crew was spared by these two men of science. 



The Admiralty also employed a famous 

 painter, William Hodges, "in order to have pic- 

 tures and drawings of every object which the pen 

 of the travellers could not sufficiently describe." 

 The Royal Observatory entrusted William 

 Wales and William Bayly with the astronomical 

 observations. The former sailed in the Resolu- 

 tion, the latter in the Adventure. On June 21st, 

 1772, Cook said good-bye to his family. He 

 took a tender farewell of Elizabeth, who, with 

 the courage of a sailor's wife, did her utmost to 

 restrain her tears. He pressed his children to 

 his breast, and with his heart swelling with emo- 



