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larger map of New Zealand in Cook’s First Voyage, the name is omitted, 
while all the other small single islets along the coast seen by them, from 
Bare Island to the Mayor, have their names inserted. Is this another 
indication of that “mean and invidious suppression" on the part of 
Dr. Hawkesworth and Mr. Banks (complained of by the editor of the 
“ Journal "), which feeling caused them to disallow the insertion of Sydney 
Parkinson's name at the corner of his engraved drawings? Possibly it 
may be so. I have also noticed that a few engravings in Cook's First 
Voyage of articles taken home in the ship, and of subjects got up in England, 
bear the names of their designers or copyists—which makes the omission of 
our artist's name the more glaring. If such, as I have ventured to suppose, 
really be the case, it is doubly mean and paltry on their part, as Sydney 
Parkinson, our artist (who died in Mr. Banks's service), could never in any 
way have injured them. 
His name is but twice mentioned in Dr. Hawkesworth's narrative of the 
first voyage: once, briefly, that of his death (which I have already quoted), 
and once shortly after their arrival at Tahiti, which is as follows :—** Our 
residence on shore would by no means have been disagreeable if we had not 
been incessantly tormented by the flies, which, among other mischief, made 
it almost impossible for Mr. Parkinson, Mr. Banks' natural history painter, 
io work; for they not only eovered his subject so as that no part of the 
surface obi be seen, but even ate the colour off the paper as fast as he 
could lay it on. We had recourse to mosquito-nets and fly-traps, which, 
though they made the inconvenience tolerable, were very far from removing 
In conclusion, I will merely say, as my firm belief, that our young 
disciple of nature and the first artist who visited these shores of New 
Zealand, and who so faithfully depicted what he saw with both his pencil 
and his pen, will yet have justice done him. When, in days to come, the 
history of New Zealand shall be fully and truthfully written, then the names 
of Cook and his gallant companions can not be forgotten ; and prominently 
among that faithful and devoted band shall be found the name of our young 
artist, Sydney Parkinson. 
“ To live in — we P behind, 
Is not to die —— 
* Cook's Voyages: p. 97, vol. II. 
