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brought on disorders that put an eud to his Hfe. 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 

 a few sweet jDotatoes ; 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 Lepldium oleracemn), most welcome vegetables ! 



During their eventful voyage they lost just two-fifths of their number, 

 including a large majority of tlieii' 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 di'aughtsmen, 

 and Mr. Banks's secretary, also his negro servant, and the two Tahitians, 

 Tupaea and Taiota — making a sad total of thh-ty-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. 



