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the general public, incorporating them with Cook’s Journal, 
often without allusion to their author, and not unfrequently 
introducing into them reflections of his own as being those 
of Cook or of Banks. Fortunately the recent publication 
by Admiral Wharton of Cook’s own Journal’ has helped to 
rectify this, for any one comparing the two narratives can 
have no difficulty in recognising the source whence Hawkes- 
worth derived his information. 
Another motive for editing Banks’s Journal is to empha- 
sise the important services which its author rendered to 
the expedition. It needs no reading between the lines of 
the great navigator’s Journal, to discover his estimation of 
the ability of his companion, of the value of his researches, 
and of the importance of his active co-operation on many 
oceasions. It was Banks who rapidly mastered the lan- 
guage of the Otahitans and became the interpreter of the 
party, and who was the investigator of the customs, habits, 
etc., of these and of the natives of New Zealand. It was 
often through his activity that the commissariat was sup- 
plied with food. He was on various occasions the thief- 
taker, especially in the case of his hazardous expedition for 
the recovery of the stolen quadrant, upon the use of which, 
in observing the transit of Venus across the sun’s disc, the 
success of the expedition so greatly depended. And, above 
all, it is to Banks’s forethought and at his own risk that an 
Otahitan man and boy were taken on board, through whom 
Banks directed, when in New Zealand, those inquiries 
into the customs of its inhabitants, which are the founda- 
from Prior's Life of Malone :—‘‘ Hawkesworth, the writer, was introduced by 
Garrick to Lord Sandwich, who, thinking to put a few hundred pounds into 
his pocket, appointed him to revise and publish Cook’s Voyages. He 
scarcely did anything to the MSS., yet sold it to Cadell and Strahan, the 
printer and bookseller, for £6000. . . .” 
1 Captain Cook’s Journal during his First Voyage round the World in 
HM. Bark ‘‘ Endeavour,” 1768-71, with Notes and Introduction by Captain 
W. J. L. Wharton, R.N., F.R.S., Hydrographer of the Admiralty. 
