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rized, overlooked, or actually committed by Capt 

 Cook, has still the hardihood to make the following 

 r-efleetion in his preface. I cannot help think- 

 ing," he says, that our late voyage would reflect 

 immortal honour on our employers, if it had no 

 other merit than stocking Taheitee with goats, the 

 Friendly Isles and New Hebrides with dogs, and 

 New Zealand and New Caledonia with hogs." 

 Mr. Forster was induced to make this remark, in 

 consequence of the " just complaints, which, he says, 

 were made by all Europe, of the almost total want of 

 scientifc information in the relations of Cook^s various 

 myages.^^ 



Mr. Sydney Parkinson accompanied Capt. Cook 

 in another voyage to the South Seas, in the ship 

 Endeavour, as draughtsman to Sir Joseph Banks. 

 Tlie author will beg permission to extract one or 

 two examples of Capt. Cook's humanity and high 

 sense of honour, from the Journal compiled from 

 different authorities to accompany the plates, en- 

 graved from Mr. Parkinson's drawings. The first 

 occurred at Otaheite. 



" In one of the canoes," says Mr. Parkinson, 

 that came trading alongside the ship, was a very 

 handsome young man, of whom I bought some 

 things. He seemed, by the variety of his garments, 

 which he sold one after the other till he had but 

 one left, to be a person of distinction among them. 

 His last garment was an upper one, made of black 

 and white dog skin, which one of the lieute nants 

 would have purchased ; and offered him a large 

 piece of cloth for it, which he swung down the 

 stern by a rope into the canoe. But as soon as the 

 young man had taken it, his companions paddled 

 away as fast as possible, shouting and brandishing 

 their weapons, as if they had made a great prize ; 

 and, being ignorant of the power of our weapons. 



