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P R E F A C E.
a defire to obtain a knowledge of the natural hiftory of thofe remote regions,
requefted permiffion to make the voyage. Mr. Parkinfon having given undoubted
proofs of his abilities and induftry, by the numerous colleftion of
drawings in natural hiftory he had already executed for Mr. Banks, that
gentleman made him propofals of going with him as botanical draughtfman,
which was accepted by him;- not altogether from a view of emolument, but
to fatisfy an infatiable curiofity he had for fuch refearches.
Soon after Captain Cook’s return home in the Endeavour, it was refolved to
equip two (hips to complete the difcovery of the fouthern hemifphere : two
were accordingly purchafed by government,, at Hull, (fhips built in that country
being judged beft fuited for fuch expeditions) the command of one of which,
named the Refolution, about 460 tons Jmrthen, ;was given to Captain Cook;
and that of the other, named the.Adventure, of 336 tons burthen, to Captain
Tobias Furneaux, who had before made the fame..voyage ,$s fécond lieutenant
with Captain Wallis. The complement of men in the former amounted to
112 officers included, in the latter to 81.
Thefe ihips were well provided with every fpecies of ftores requifite for fo
long a voyage; and likewife with many extra articles, fuçh as malt, four krout,
failed cabbage, portable broth, faloup, muftard, marmalade of ^carrots,, ^nd
infpilfated juice of wort and beer; many of which had been found to aft as
anti-fcorbutics.
The Lords of the Admiralty alfo caufed a number of medals to be ftruck,
on one fide representing his Majefty, and on.the other, the two ihips; which
were to be given to the natives of the new difcoverpd countries,; and left there
as teftimonies of the Engliih, being the firft .difcoverers.
T h e ir Lordffiips ffiewed no lefs attention to fc ien c e in general, b y engaging
M r . W illiam Hodges, a landfcape painter, to embark in this voyage, in order
to make paintings o f fuch places in the countries they ihould touch at, as
m ight be proper to give a more perfeft idea thereof than could be formed from
written defcriptions on ly . And it being thou ght o f p u b lick u tility , that fome
p e r lo n s
perfons lkilled in natural hiftory ihould be engaged to undertake the voyage,
parliament granted an ample fum for that purpofe; and Mr. John Reinhold
Forfter, with his fon, were pitched upon for this employment.
The board of longitude, willing to take this opportunity of making aftrono- P* 35-
micai 'and nautical observations and experiments, fent out Mr. William Wales p- 34-
and Mr. William Bayley, furniihed with every needful inftrument, and like- p. 35.
wife with four time pieces or watch machines; three made by Mr. Arnold, and
one bv Mr. Kendall, 'on Mr. Harrifon’s principles. An account of theie ob-
fervatiOns were laid before the publick, on the return pf the aftronpmers, by
order of the board.
Having given this fummary, we ihall proceed to particulars; juft premifing,
that as the limits of . this addition will not permit Us to make a minute
recapitulation of every occurrence which happened during the feveral voyages,
it has been chièfly^cdnfined to the new difcOveries; and as the fécond and third
voyages of Captain Cook are more immediately connefted with Parkinfon’s
Journal, the account of them is more copious than thofe which precede it.
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Commodore B Y R O N ’s Voyage in his Majefiy’s Ship
the D O L P H I N.
On the 3d of July 1764, Commodore Byron Sailed from Plymouth in the p. p
Dolphin, ; a man of war of the fixth rate, mounting twenty-four guns, her introd.
complement of men i'5o, with three lieutenants, and thirty-feven petty p# II-
officers. He was aqcompanied by the Tamer, a iloop of fixteen guns, the
complement'of which was 90 men, three lieutenants,, and twenty-two petty
officers, commanded by Captain Mouat.
After having touched at thé Iiland of Madeira, and at Port Praya, in the Iiland p. 3*
of St. Jago,. one ,of the Cape dé Verd Illands, on the 13th of September they p. 4^
anchored in the great road of Rio de Janeiro*, on the coaft of Brazil. They had p. 5.
obferved, to their great mortification, that no fiih, during the whole of this
. paflage,