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satisfactory to the Court, '■' * Indeed, the whole purpose appears to 

 be htigious, and calculated to answer no other end than to delay my 

 publication till he should get the start of me and publish his own, and this 

 end, to my great damage and loss, it hath answered." 



In conclusion, the editor says: — "Having thus given a simple, un- 

 varnished narrative of the causes of the delay of this publication, I submit 

 its encouragement to the judgment and candour of the public. In respect 

 to the comparative merits of Dr. Hawkesworth's book and mine, it is not 

 for me to say anything. If I have justified myself in the eye of the 

 impartial world for persisting in this pubhcation, I shah leave the works of 

 my brother to speak his talents, thinking I have paid a proper respect to 

 his memory, though it should be said of his journal that its only ornament 

 is truth, and its best recommendation, characteristic of himself, its genuine 

 simplicity." 



In making a few extracts from Sydney Parkinson's Jom'nal, I have 

 confined myself to such as are not particularly mentioned in Cook's Voyage ; 

 paying es^jecial attention to those which refer to our own immediate sea of 

 Hawke Bay and the east coast of the North Island. It is a notable fact 

 (though, perhaps, little known) that though Capt. Cook visited New 

 Zealand several times and spent many months altogether in the bays and 

 harbours and on the coasts of this country, the only bay which he fully 

 explored and sailed all round its shores was our Hawke Bay, and that on his 

 first voyage when Sydney Parkinson was with him. 



Their whole number in their little barque the " Endeavour," of 370 

 tons, was ninety-six. At Madeira they had the misfortune to lose their 

 chief mate, Mr. Ware, by drowning, which is thus related : — " His death 

 was occasioned by an unlucky accident which happened to him while he 

 stood in the boat to see one of the anchors slipped. The buoy-rope 

 happening to entangle one of his legs, he was drawn overboard and drowned 

 before we could lend him any assistance. He was a very honest, worthy 

 man, and one of om* best seamen." And a similar misadventure happened 

 at their next port-of-call, Eio, where, " in coming out of the harbour, Mr. 

 Flowers, an experienced seaman, fell from the main shrouds into the sea 

 and was drowned before we could reach him." 



These cu-cumstances and others like them are brought to your notice in 

 this memoir, that you should know that the successful voj'-age of our 

 illustrious navigator cost a great sacrifice of human life from among his 

 own ship's company. This has, I think, been almost, if not altogether, 

 overlooked by the pubhc at large, in reading or in hearing of Cook's famous 

 voyage ! The halo that justly surrounds his imperishable name is so grand, 

 go overpowering, that the loss of so many of his brave companions during 



