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larger map of New Zealand in Cook's Fii-st Voyage, the name is omitted, 

 while all the other small single islets along the coast seen hy 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 theu' 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 then* 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 akeady 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, 

 to work ; for they not only covered his subject so as that no part of the 

 surface could be seen, but even ate the colom* ofl: the paper as fast as he 

 could lay it on. We had recom-se to mosquito-nets and fly-traps, which, 

 though they made the inconvenience tolerable, were very far from removing 

 it."* 



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, wiU yet have justice done him. When, in days to come, the 

 history of New Zealand shall be fuUy 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 hearts we leave behind, 

 Is not to die ." 



Cook's Voyages : p. 97, vol. 11. 



