I I did not find there was any ftipulated time referved for the foie ufe of
Sydney Parkinfon during this expedition, His fitlary \vas fixed, his fupport
- engaged for.—and of right, his time was the property of .J. Banks, who paid
this falary, and gave this fupport.
It followed then that the whole of S. Parkinfon's labour as a draughtfman,
of in whatever manner he might be.employed towards-promoting the objedt of
this voyage was the property of his employer. This I confidered as including
notes, minutes, draughts, and other articles that required time to execute ;
which time was his mailer’s.
But as it appeared, that he had ufed extraordinary diligence ; had giyen the'
mod ample fatisfaftiqn to J. Banks, , both in refpedt to' application and
• ability'; that he was 'now no more, and could claim from him no farther
acknowledgment, I judged that more than barely his wages was due,, and
embracing the liberty allowed me to propofe what was 'generous, I thought if
the fum of £151, which was due' to-the executors of this,young man,, was.,
made up ¿'¡oo, it would be a moil ample acknowledgment of his fervices ;
and prompt any ■ other perfon' who -might attend in a fécond voyage,
(which was then in agitation) in the fame .llation, to exert himfelf with
vigour, when he had before him fuch an ihftance of generous attention to
extraordinary fervices. I endeavoured to make it my own cafe, both one fido
and the other. " J. Banks very readily fell in with the propofal, and fettled at
the fame time a penfion upon a black woman, the wife of a faithful black
fervant who went out with him, and perilhed by the cold of Terra del Fuego. iff
With regard to the collection made by Sydney Parkinfon, it feemed to
a p p r o a c h very near being the property of J. Banks; yet part of it might be
purchafed— might be given him for particular fervices— might be collected at
times when it would be ujireafonable to expéCt he ihould be labouring at all.
In thefe things I allowed him to be intereited, yet with this réferve, that i f he
had collected any curiofities, which were not in the general collection, it would
be
be right'for J. B. to have every thing o f that kind, a;s the collection could not
have been made without his'expence and affiftance.
I propofed, therefore, in refpeCt to thefe things, that J. B. ihould have the
privilege of. looking them all over— of feleCting from them whatever might be
agreeable to him, and returning the reft to Stanfield Parkinfon.
When Sydney went out, I requefted him, if he met with any rare marine
productions, which did not interfere with the general bufinefs, that he would
be kind enough to referve a few fpecimens for me— this he promifed, and had
he lived would, I doubt not, have gratefully performed.
Stánñeld' allowed me to look over this part of his Collection ; requeuing me
at the fame timé to lay afide a few of fuch as I thought rare for his coufin at
Newcaftle. This I performed; took care in feleCting for myfelf thofe I
thought proper, that the reft of the collection ihould be as valuable as poflible,
by leaving duplicates, "arid in good condition.
At my requeft, and in purfuance of the opinion, that it was neceflary that
every curious article not in the general collection, if any fuch there ihould be,
ought to make a part of it, both the ihells I had feleCted for myfelf and >S. P.’s
relation, ás well as thofe from whence they were taken, were all fent back to
J. Banks, who after fonie time returned to me all thofe I had picked out, and
thofe only. In this part of my négociation I was unfortunate. I had not made
mÿfelf fuffiçiently uriderftood. I meant that after J. B. had taken out of
Sydney Parkinfon’s collection, whatever he might think fit to add to his own
Collection, not only thofe which I Had feleCted, but the reft likewife ihould
Have been returned. Papers, nianufcripts, drawings, and whatever related to
the objeCt of this voyage, the promotion -of knowledge, were unexceptionably
tobe given up to J. Banks, who thought himfelf likewife. entitled to the reft
of the.curiofitie6, as well as the nianufcripts, papers, &c. in confideration o f the
ample fatisfaCtion he had made, having prefen ted thè family with £349 more
than was'due to Parkinfon ; forty-nine of which he judged to be more than an'
equivalent