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brought on disorders that put an end to his life. On the 1st of May we 
anchored at St. Helena, where we remained till the 4th, when we weighed 
and put to sea. On the 23rd died our first lieutenant, Mr. Hicks. Our 
rigging and sails were now become so bad that something was giving way 
every day. We continued our course, however, in safety till the 10th of 
June, when land, which proved to be the Lizard, was discovered by Nicholas 
Young, the same boy that first saw New Zealand, and on the 12th came to 
an anchor in the Downs; after having been absent from England within a 
few days of three years, when we immediately sent our sick on shore." 
Voyagers in our day can form but a very poor conception of what Cook 
and his companions had daily to endure during their three years' voyage in 
the “ Endeavour.” From New Zealand at that time, though much in 
want of fresh supplies, they could get little besides fish, and wood, and 
water, and some sea-side weeds as vegetables. They also got with difficulty 
& few sweet potatoes; this, however, was owing to its being the wrong 
season of the year for kumera, being just the planting season, at which 
time the natives themselves have very few (if any) to use as food. And the 
New Zealand forests afforded no good edible fruits. By Captain Cook and 
his officers, as we have seen, a dog was considered a great luxury; and the 
rank weeds of our shores, wild celery, and scurvy-grass (Apium australe, 
and Lepidium oleraceum), most welcome vegetables ! 
During their eventful voyage they lost just two-fifths of their number, 
including a large majority of their officers and principal men, none of whom 
were killed in battle or lost their lives through storms or dangers. They 
lost the first lieutenant, the master, the chief mate, two midshipmen, the 
boatswain, the sailmaker and his assistant, the carpenter, the carpenter's 
mate and two of his crew, the ship's cook, and sixteen seamen ; also, the 
corporal of marines, the surgeon, the astronomer, the two draughtsmen, 
and Mr. Banks's secretary, also his negro servant, and the two Tahitians, 
Tupaea and Taiota—making a sad total of thirty-eight! and, possibly, some 
more of the sick who were carried on shore. Well might Captain Cook call 
his ship a ** floating hospital !'' 
The names, however, of those officers and gentlemen live here among 
us in the bays and isles and headlands named after them by Captain Cook. 
The islet at Anaura (which, as Parkinson said in his journal, “ somewhat 
sheltered their ship " when they first got water in New Zealand) was named 
after our artist, just as the other small island in the adjoining bay of Tolago 
was named after Mr. Banks’s secretary, Mr. Sporing.* ‘‘ Parkinson Islet ” 
is so named in the very neat map of New Zealand in Sydney Parkinson’s 
journal; but, curiously enough, while the islet is correctly given in the 
* I find, from Dr. Sparrman’s Voyage, that Mr. Sporing was a Swede. 
