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  Speaker 1: Chapter number fifteen of the Life of Captain James Cook,
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  Speaker 1: the Circumnavigator by Arthur Kitson. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain Chapter fifteen, seventeen seventy five to seventeen
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  Speaker 1: seventy six, England. After his return, Cook was busily engaged
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  Speaker 1: preparing his journal and charts for publication, which had been
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  Speaker 1: sanctioned by the Admiralty, and was considerably annoyed and delayed
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  Speaker 1: by the conduct of mister Forster, who immediately on his
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  Speaker 1: return complained that the four thousand pounds granted him to
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  Speaker 1: cover the whole of his expenses had proved totally inadequate.
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  Speaker 1: He claimed that Lord Sandwich had promised verbally that he
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  Speaker 1: was to have the exclusive duty of writing the history
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  Speaker 1: of the voyage, was to receive the whole of the
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  Speaker 1: prophets thereof, and to be provided with permanent employ moment
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  Speaker 1: for the remainder of his life. This promise was totally
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  Speaker 1: denied by Lord Sandwich, and it certainly does not appear
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  Speaker 1: to have been a reasonable one to make on behalf
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  Speaker 1: of the Admiralty. After a protracted discussion, it was agreed
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  Speaker 1: that Cook should write the account of the voyage and
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  Speaker 1: the countries visited, whilst Forster was to write a second
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  Speaker 1: volume containing his observations as a scientist. The Admiralty was
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  Speaker 1: to pay the expenses of engraving the charts, pictures, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: and on completion of the work, the plates were to
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  Speaker 1: be equally divided between Cook and Forster. Cook was to
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  Speaker 1: proceed with his part at once and submit it to
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  Speaker 1: Forster for revision, and Forster was to draw up a
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  Speaker 1: plan of the method he intended to pursue and forward
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  Speaker 1: it to Lord Sandwich for approval. Cook proceeded to carry
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  Speaker 1: out his share and furnished Forster with a large amount
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  Speaker 1: of manuscript but the latter proved obstinately insistent on having
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  Speaker 1: his own way in everything, with the result that, after
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  Speaker 1: submitting two schemes to Lord Sandwich, both extremely unsatisfactory, he
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  Speaker 1: was forbidden to write at all, and it was decided
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  Speaker 1: that Cook should complete the whole of the work and
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  Speaker 1: it should be revised by the Reverend John Douglas, Cannon
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  Speaker 1: of Windsor afterwards Bishop of Carlisle Forster's yarns. Notwithstanding the
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  Speaker 1: prohibition against Forster, a book was published under his son's name,
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  Speaker 1: and the latter claims he started on the voyage with
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  Speaker 1: the intention of writing, took copious notes, and, accepting that
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  Speaker 1: he utilized those taken by his father, the work was
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  Speaker 1: entirely his own. He forgets, however, to say that a
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  Speaker 1: quantity of Cook's manuscripts had been in his father's hands,
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  Speaker 1: and does not explain how so much of his book
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  Speaker 1: corresponds with curious exactitude with that of Cook, in many
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  Speaker 1: cases word for word, and how when the papers of
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  Speaker 1: Cook failed to provide him with further facts he was
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  Speaker 1: obliged to rely on would be philosophical dissertations, which it
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  Speaker 1: is to be hoped, were not obtained from his father's notebooks.
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  Speaker 1: Young Forster says that the appointment was first of all
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  Speaker 1: given to his father in a spirit of peak on
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  Speaker 1: the part of Lord Sandwich, and then the order forbidding
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  Speaker 1: him to write was made because the father had refused
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  Speaker 1: to give Miss Ray, Lord Sandwich's mistress, who had admired
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  Speaker 1: them when on board the ship some birds brought from
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  Speaker 1: the Cape of Good Hope as a present to the Queen.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, the Forsters forestalled Cook's book by about
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  Speaker 1: six weeks, and as this was after Cook had left England.
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  Speaker 1: On his last voyage, mister Wales undertook the defense of
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  Speaker 1: the absent against the sneers and insinuations that were plentifully
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  Speaker 1: given out all round the forsters. In further, Cook was
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  Speaker 1: unreliable because he supposes mention of the bombardment of the
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  Speaker 1: Loeu Fort at Madeira, an event which never happened, and
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  Speaker 1: because he places a volparazzo where he had never been,
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  Speaker 1: in the position given on by the Admiralty chart supplied
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  Speaker 1: to him, which proved to be some ten degrees out.
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  Speaker 1: The master, who had refused to give up his cabin,
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  Speaker 1: was of course never forgiven. And as for mister Wales,
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  Speaker 1: who had observed the transit of Venus at Hudson's Bay
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  Speaker 1: in seventeen sixty nine for the Royal Society, he poor
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  Speaker 1: man had neither knowledge nor experience in astronomy science. The
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  Speaker 1: crews of the two ships also carefully selected men, though
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  Speaker 1: they were some of whom had been the previous voyage,
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  Speaker 1: were morally and physically bad, and utterly incapable of performing
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  Speaker 1: their duty in a proper and seamanlike manner. A little
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  Speaker 1: allowance must be made for the two authors, for the
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  Speaker 1: father suffered severely from rheumatism. The son was of a
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  Speaker 1: scorbutic tendency, and both were unaccustomed to see life, and
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  Speaker 1: doubtless the hardships inseparable from such a voyage pressed heavily
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  Speaker 1: on them. A second journal was published by F. Newbery
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  Speaker 1: about the same time, and Cook, hearing of it, sent
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  Speaker 1: Anderson the Gunner to find out the author. With little difficulty,
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  Speaker 1: he was found to be Mara, the Gunner's mate, who
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  Speaker 1: tried to desert at O Tahiti, and the public location
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  Speaker 1: was stayed till after the authorized version was out. A
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  Speaker 1: volume of Cook's letters to doctor Douglas relating to the
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  Speaker 1: preparation of his journal for the press, is preserved at
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  Speaker 1: the British Museum, and it shows how Cook, to the
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  Speaker 1: very last endeavored to serve mister Forster's interests and to
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  Speaker 1: smooth matters over so that they could work together. The
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  Speaker 1: last one Doctor Douglas received before Cook's departure was dated
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  Speaker 1: from Myrland twenty third of June seventeen seventy six, the
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  Speaker 1: day before he joined his ship. At the now dear Sir,
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  Speaker 1: it is now settled that I am to publish without
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  Speaker 1: mister Forster, and I have taken my measures accordingly. When
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  Speaker 1: Captain Campbell has looked over the manuscript, it will be
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  Speaker 1: put into the hands of mister Strahan and mister Stewart
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  Speaker 1: to be printed, and I shall hope for the continuation
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  Speaker 1: of your assistance in correcting the press. I know not
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  Speaker 1: how to recompense you for the trouble you have had
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  Speaker 1: and will have in the work. I can only beg
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  Speaker 1: you will accept of as many copies after it is
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  Speaker 1: published as will serve yourself and friends, and I have
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  Speaker 1: given directions for you to be furnished with them. When
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  Speaker 1: you have done with the introduction, please send it to
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  Speaker 1: mister Strahan, or bring it with you when you come
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  Speaker 1: to town, for there needs be no hurry about it.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow morning I set out to join my ship at
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  Speaker 1: the north, and with her proceed to Plymouth, where my
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  Speaker 1: stay will be but short. Permit me to assure you
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  Speaker 1: that I shall always have a due sense of the
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  Speaker 1: favor you have done me, and that I am with
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  Speaker 1: great esteem and regard, Dear Sir, your obliged and very
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  Speaker 1: humble servant, James Cook. Notwithstanding the foster's endeavor to discount
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  Speaker 1: its success by forestalling the publication by some weeks. Cook's
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  Speaker 1: work was well received by the public, and Missus Cook,
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  Speaker 1: to whom the whole of the profits were given, reaped
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  Speaker 1: considerable benefit from its sale. Fellow of Royal Society. On
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  Speaker 1: the twenty ninth of February seventeen seventy six, Captain James
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  Speaker 1: Cook was unanimously elected a Fellow of the Royal Society,
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  Speaker 1: and his certificate of election was signed by no less
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  Speaker 1: than twenty six of the fellows. He was formally admitted
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  Speaker 1: on the seventeenth of March, on which date a paper
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  Speaker 1: written by him on the means he had used for
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  Speaker 1: the prevention and cure of scurvy was read. But he
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  Speaker 1: valued his success in dealing with this disease, which, at
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  Speaker 1: that time, even in voyages of very moderate lias length,
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  Speaker 1: was the most terrible danger to be encountered, as plainly
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  Speaker 1: set forth in his journal of the voyage, he says,
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  Speaker 1: but whatever may be the public judgment about other matters,
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  Speaker 1: it is with real satisfaction, and without claiming any merit
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  Speaker 1: but that of attention to my duty, that I can
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  Speaker 1: conclude this account with an observation which facts enable me
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  Speaker 1: to make, that our having discovered the possibility of preserving
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  Speaker 1: health amongst a numerous ship's company for such a length
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  Speaker 1: of time, in such varieties of climate, and amidst such
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  Speaker 1: continued hardships and fatigues, will make this voyage remarkable in
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  Speaker 1: opinion of every benevolent person, when the disputes about a
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  Speaker 1: southern continent shall have ceased to engage the intention and
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  Speaker 1: to divide the judgment of philosophers. During his early days
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  Speaker 1: at sea, it was no unusual thing for a man
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  Speaker 1: of war to be shorthanded through scurvy after a cruise
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  Speaker 1: of a few weeks, and in a voyage across the Atlantic,
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  Speaker 1: as many as twenty percent of the crew are known
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  Speaker 1: to have perished. To give some of his own experiences
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  Speaker 1: to the Navy. On the fourth of June seventeen fifty six,
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  Speaker 1: Etchames Eagle arrived in Plymouth's Sound after cruising for two
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  Speaker 1: months in the Channel and off the French coast, and
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  Speaker 1: Captain Palliser reported landing one hundred and thirty six buried
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  Speaker 1: at sea twenty two and since his arrival in port,
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  Speaker 1: his surgeon and four men had died, and both his
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  Speaker 1: surgeon's mates were very ill. This out of a compliment
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  Speaker 1: of four hundred Boss Carwin sailing from Halifax for Louisbourg
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  Speaker 1: in seventeen fifty eight, left several ships behind on account
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  Speaker 1: of scurvy, one being the Pembroke, of which Cook was master.
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  Speaker 1: She had lost twenty nine men crossing the Atlantic, but
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  Speaker 1: she was able to rejoin before the others, as they
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  Speaker 1: were in a worse plight. Wolfe reported to Lord George
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  Speaker 1: Sackville that some of the regiments employed at Louisbourg had
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  Speaker 1: three hundred or four hundred men eat up with scurvy
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  Speaker 1: of the Northumberland. When at Halifax. Lord Colvill wrote that
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  Speaker 1: frozen fresh beef from Boston kept his men healthy when
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  Speaker 1: in port, but the scurvy never fails to put us
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  Speaker 1: down in great numbers upon our going to sea in spring.
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  Speaker 1: Having had such experiences, Cook appears to have made up
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  Speaker 1: his mind to fight the dreadful scourge from the very first,
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  Speaker 1: and though the popular idea is that he only turned
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  Speaker 1: his mind to it during the second voyage, it is
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  Speaker 1: very evident that on the endeavor he fought it successfully,
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  Speaker 1: and it is most probable would have laid claim to
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  Speaker 1: victory had it not been for the serious losses incurred
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  Speaker 1: through the malarial fever and its usual companion dysentery contracted
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  Speaker 1: at Batavia. In proof of this, reference may be made
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  Speaker 1: to the report of mister Pierri, Surgeon's mate, and after
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  Speaker 1: mister Munkouth's death surgeon on board. He states they rounded
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  Speaker 1: the horn with the crew as free from scurvy as
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  Speaker 1: on our sailing from Plymouth. That is, after five months.
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  Speaker 1: He reports for the whole of the voyage five cases
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  Speaker 1: of scurvy, three in port at New Holland, and two
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  Speaker 1: while on the coast of New Zealand. Not a man
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  Speaker 1: more suffered any convenience from this distemper. He was one
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  Speaker 1: of the five cases. But at the same time it
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  Speaker 1: must not be understood that no other's developed symptoms of scurvy.
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  Speaker 1: Only they were so closely watched and at once subjected
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  Speaker 1: to such treatment that the disease was not able to
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  Speaker 1: gain the upper hand. Cook wrote to the Secretary of
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  Speaker 1: the Admiralty immediately after his arrival at Batavia, saying, I
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  Speaker 1: have not lost one man from sickness. He means here
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  Speaker 1: as elsewhere in his journal's sickness to be taken as scurvy,
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  Speaker 1: and at that time he had lost only seven men,
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  Speaker 1: two of mister Banks's servants from exposure, three men drowned,
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  Speaker 1: mister Buchan a fit probably apoletic, and one man alcoholic poisoning.
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  Speaker 1: He arrived at home with a total loss of forty one,
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  Speaker 1: including Tupia and his boy. Thirty Two of these deaths
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  Speaker 1: were from fever and dysentery, and two mister Hickson Sutherland
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  Speaker 1: from consumption treatment of scurvy. The chief anti scorbutics used
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  Speaker 1: on the Endeavor, according to mister Perry's report, were sauer kraut, mustard, vinegar, wheat,
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  Speaker 1: whole inspissated orange and lemon, juice, salop, portable soup, sugar, molasses,
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  Speaker 1: vegetables at all times when they could possibly be got.
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  Speaker 1: Were some in constant others in occasional use. Salap was
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  Speaker 1: a decoction made from the orchis muscular root, a common
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  Speaker 1: meadow plant, or else from sassafras, and was at one
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  Speaker 1: time sold in the streets as a drink before the
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  Speaker 1: introduction of and coffee. In the United Service Museum, there
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  Speaker 1: is a cake of the portable soup which was on
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  Speaker 1: board the Endeavor, in appearance like a square of whitish glue,
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  Speaker 1: which in effect it is, says Sir John Pringle, President
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  Speaker 1: of the Royal Society. Mister Perry continues cold bathing was
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  Speaker 1: encouraged and enforced. By example, the allowance of salt beef
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  Speaker 1: and pork was abridged from nearly the beginning of the voyage,
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  Speaker 1: and the usual custom of the sailors mixing the salt
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  Speaker 1: beef fat with the flour was strictly forbidden. Salt butter
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  Speaker 1: and cheese was stopped on leaving England, and throughout the
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  Speaker 1: voyage raisins were issued in place of the salt suet.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to the malt, wild celery was collected in
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  Speaker 1: Tierra de Fiago, and every morning breakfast was made from
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  Speaker 1: this herb, ground wheat and portable soup. Of the personal
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  Speaker 1: cleanliness of the crew, which Cook looked upon as of
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  Speaker 1: the first importance, Mara says, when writing of the Resolution's voyage,
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  Speaker 1: he was very particular, never suffering any to a pair
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  Speaker 1: dirty before him, insomuch that when other commanders came on board,
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  Speaker 1: they could not help declaring they thought every day Sunday
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  Speaker 1: on board of Captain Cook, he inspected the men at
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  Speaker 1: least once a week, and saw they had changed their
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  Speaker 1: clothing and were dry. The bedding was dried in aired
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  Speaker 1: when occasion offered, and the whole ship was stove dried,
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  Speaker 1: special attention being paid to the well into which an
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  Speaker 1: iron pot containing a fire was lowered. Fresh water was
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  Speaker 1: obtained when possible. For Cook remarks, nothing contributes more to
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  Speaker 1: the health of seamen than having plenty of war water.
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  Speaker 1: He was provided with a condenser, but it was too
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  Speaker 1: small and unsatisfactory, and he looked upon it as a
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  Speaker 1: useful invention, but only calculated to provide enough to preserve
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  Speaker 1: life without health. He attributed the losses on the adventure
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  Speaker 1: to Ferno's desire to save his men's labor, and neglected
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  Speaker 1: to avail himself of every opportunity of obtaining fresh water.
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  Speaker 1: Cook throughout the voyage was never short of water. Erno
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  Speaker 1: was on two or three occasions. Doctor mc bride advises
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  Speaker 1: the use of fresh wort made from malt as an
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  Speaker 1: anti scoreboutic, and the endeavor was ordered to give it
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  Speaker 1: a thorough trial. Fresh ground malt was treated with boiling
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  Speaker 1: water and allowed to stand. Then the liquid was boiled
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  Speaker 1: with dried fruit or biscuit into a pandanna, and the
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  Speaker 1: patient had one or two meals with a quart or
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  Speaker 1: more of the liquid per day am. This treatment was
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  Speaker 1: favorably reported on, but at the same time so many
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  Speaker 1: other precautions were taken that it was not possible to
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  Speaker 1: say which was the most successful. Banks, who was threatened,
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  Speaker 1: tried the wart, but thinking it affected his throat, substituted
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  Speaker 1: a weak punch of lemon juice and brandy, which had
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  Speaker 1: satisfactory results. After a time, the molt, though dry and sweet,
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  Speaker 1: had lost much strength, so as strong a wart was
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  Speaker 1: made as possible, and ground wheat boiled with it for breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: a very pleasant mess which the people were fond of,
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  Speaker 1: and Cook had great reason to think that the people
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  Speaker 1: received much benefit from it sauer Kraut. Cook set great
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  Speaker 1: story the souer Kraut and says, the men at first
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  Speaker 1: would not eat it until I put it in practice
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  Speaker 1: a method I never once knew to fail with Seamen,
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  Speaker 1: and this was to have some of it dressed every
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  Speaker 1: day for the cabin table, and permitted all the officers,
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  Speaker 1: without exception, to make use of it, and left it
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  Speaker 1: to the option of the men to take as much
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  Speaker 1: as they pleased, or none at all. But this practice
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  Speaker 1: was not continued above a week before I found it
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  Speaker 1: necessary to put everyone on board to an allowance. For
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  Speaker 1: such are the tempers and disposition of seamen in general,
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  Speaker 1: that whatever you give them out of the common way,
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  Speaker 1: although it be ever so much for their good, it
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  Speaker 1: will not go down. And you will hear nothing but
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  Speaker 1: murmurings against a man that first invented it. But the
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  Speaker 1: moment they see their superiors set a value upon it,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes the finest stuff in the world, and the
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  Speaker 1: inventor is an honest fellow. A pound of this was
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  Speaker 1: served to each man twice a week at sea or
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  Speaker 1: oftener if thought necessary. Portable soup at the rate of
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  Speaker 1: an ounce per man was boiled with the peas thrice
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  Speaker 1: a week, and when vegetables could be obtained, it was
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  Speaker 1: boiled with them and wheat or oatmeal for breakfast, with
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  Speaker 1: peas and vegetables for dinner. And it was the means
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  Speaker 1: of making the people eat a greater quantity of vegetables
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  Speaker 1: than they would otherwise have done. The rub of lemon
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  Speaker 1: and orange was a doubtful quantity, for though Cook had
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  Speaker 1: no great confidence in its efficacy, Ferno reported very favorably
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  Speaker 1: on its use, but it was expensive of vinegar. Cook
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  Speaker 1: was of opinion that it was of little service and birds.
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  Speaker 1: Smoking the ship with wood fires too, washing with vinegar,
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  Speaker 1: which had been strongly advised, He substituted sugar for oil,
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  Speaker 1: as he esteemed it a very good anti scorbutic, whereas oil,
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  Speaker 1: such as the navy is usually supplied with, I am
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  Speaker 1: of the opinion, has a contrary effect. Cook says that
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  Speaker 1: the introduction of the most salutary articles would prove unsuccessful
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  Speaker 1: unless accompanied by strict regulations. So the crew were divided
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  Speaker 1: into three watches, except on some extraordinary occasion, in order
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  Speaker 1: that they might not be so exposed to the weather
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  Speaker 1: and had a better chance to get into dry clothes
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  Speaker 1: if they happened to get wet. Hammocks, bedding, clothes, and
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  Speaker 1: ship were kept as clean and dry as possible, and
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  Speaker 1: when the ship could not be cured with fires, twice
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  Speaker 1: a week she was smoked with gunpowder mixed with vinegar
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  Speaker 1: or water to cleanliness as well in the ship. As
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  Speaker 1: amongst the people, too great attention cannot be paid. The
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  Speaker 1: least neglect occasions a putrid and disagreeable smell, below which
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  Speaker 1: nothing but the fires will remove. He finishes his paper
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  Speaker 1: read before the Royal Society, as follows. We came to
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  Speaker 1: few places where either the art of man or the
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  Speaker 1: bounty of nature had not provided some sort of refreshment
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  Speaker 1: or other, either in the animal or vegetable way. It
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  Speaker 1: was my first care to procure whatever of any kind
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  Speaker 1: could be met with by every means in my power,
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  Speaker 1: and to oblige our people to make use thereof both
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  Speaker 1: of my example and authority. But the benefits arising from
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  Speaker 1: refine freshments of any kind soon became so obvious that
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  Speaker 1: I had little occasion to recommend the one or exert
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  Speaker 1: the other. Copley Gold Medal. On the thirtieth of November
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  Speaker 1: seventeen seventy six, Sir John Pringle, President of the Royal Society,
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  Speaker 1: in his address to the Fellows, announced that the Copley
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  Speaker 1: Gold Medal had been conferred on Captain Cook for his
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  Speaker 1: paper on the treatment of scurvy, and gave some corroborative
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  Speaker 1: facts which had come under his own observation, Concluding his
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  Speaker 1: speech as follows, If Rome decreed the civic crown to
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  Speaker 1: him who saved the life of a single citizen, what
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  Speaker 1: reefs were due to this man, who, having himself saved
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  Speaker 1: many perpetuates in your transactions? The means by which Britain
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  Speaker 1: may now on the most distant voyages preserved numbers of
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  Speaker 1: her intrepid sons, her mariners, who, braving every danger, have
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  Speaker 1: so liberally contributed to the fame, to the opulence, and
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  Speaker 1: to the maritime empire for this country. Before Cook left
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  Speaker 1: England on his last voyage, he had been informed that
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  Speaker 1: the medal had been conferred on him, but he never
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  Speaker 1: received it, and it was presented to Missus Cook and
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: is now in the British Museum. During May seventeen seventy six,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Cook sat for his portrait now in the Painted Hall, Greenwich,
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  Speaker 1: to Sir Nathaniel Dance. There are several portraits of him
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  Speaker 1: in existence, three by Weber, one being in the National
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  Speaker 1: Portrait Gallery, one by Hodges, and one or two others
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  Speaker 1: by unknown artists. Mister Samuel Surgeon on the third voyage
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  Speaker 1: says of an engraving by Sherwin from the portrait by Dance,
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  Speaker 1: that it is a most excellent likeness of Captain Cook,
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  Speaker 1: and more to be valued, as it is the only
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  Speaker 1: one I have seen that bears any resemblance to him.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: This portrait of Dances represents Cook dressed in his captain's uniform,
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  Speaker 1: seated at a table on which is a chart. The
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  Speaker 1: figure is evidently that of a tall man. He is
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  Speaker 1: over six feet in height, with brown, unpowdered hair neatly
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  Speaker 1: tied back from the face. The clear complexion shows little
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  Speaker 1: effect of exposure to the sea breezes. The pleasant brown
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: eyes look from under rather prominent brows, the nose rather long,
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  Speaker 1: and a good firm mouth. The whole face gives a
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  Speaker 1: very pleasant impression of the man and conveys the idea
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  Speaker 1: that it was a good likeness look volunteers. O Mai,
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  Speaker 1: a native of O Tahiti, was brought to England by Ferno,
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  Speaker 1: was introduced to the King, made much of in society,
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  Speaker 1: was painted by Reynolds, Dance and Hodges, and seems to
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  Speaker 1: have conducted himself fairly well. He was to be sent
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  Speaker 1: back to his own country, and from the orders given
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  Speaker 1: to the Resolution when she returned, it was evident she
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: was to be the ship to take him. There was
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  Speaker 1: some difficulty as to the man to take command of
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  Speaker 1: the new expedition, as the Admiralty felt they could not
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: send out Cook again so soon after his return. However,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: early in February seventeen seventy six, he was invited to
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  Speaker 1: dine with Lord Sandwich to meet Sir Hugh Palliser and
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: mister Stephens, the Secretary. When the proposed expedition was discussed
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and the difficulty of finding a commanda was brought forward.
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  Speaker 1: It is said that after some conversation Cook jumped up
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  Speaker 1: and declared he would go. And as a result of
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: this resolve, he called at the Admiralty Office on the
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  Speaker 1: tenth of February and made formal application for the command,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: which was accepted on the same day, and he there
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  Speaker 1: and then went to Deptford and hoisted his pendant on
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  Speaker 1: the resolution. Her compliment was the same as the previous voyage,
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  Speaker 1: that is one hundred and twelve men, including twelve marines,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and the quarter bill preserved in the Record's office shows
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the stations and duties of each of the crew and
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the positions of the civilians, who, in cases of necessity,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: were expected to take their places as small arms men.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: The companionship The Discovery was built by Langbourne of Whitby
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and was put for two thousand, four hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: pounds from W. Herbert of Scarborough. According to the records,
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  Speaker 1: she was two hundred and twenty nine tons Burthen, but
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Cook puts her down as three hundred tons, and Bernie
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  Speaker 1: says the two ships were splendid sailing company. Any advantage
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  Speaker 1: there might be resting with the discovery. The command was
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  Speaker 1: given to Charles Clerk, who had been both the previous voyages.
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  Speaker 1: The resolution hauled out of dock tenth of March, completed
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  Speaker 1: her rigging, and took in stores and provisions, which was
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  Speaker 1: as much as we could stow, and the best of
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: every kind that could be got. On the sixth of May,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the pilot went on board to take her down to
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  Speaker 1: long Reach for her guns and powder, but owing to
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: contrary winds, she did not reach there until the thirtieth.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: On the eighth of June, she was visited by Lord Sandwich,
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  Speaker 1: Sir Hugh Palliser and others from the Admiralty to see
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: that everything was completed to their desire and to the
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: satisfaction of all who were to embark in the voyage.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: A bull, two cows and their calves with some sheep
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: were embarked as a present from King George to the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: O Tahitians in hopes to start stocking the island. A
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: good supply of trade was shipped the extra warm clothing
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: for the crew was supplied by the Admiralty, and nothing
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: was wanting that was thought conducive to either conveniency or health.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Such was the extraordinary care taken by those at the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: head of the naval departments. Cook and King were to
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: take observations on the Resolution, and Bailey, who was with
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the adventure the previous voyage, was appointed as astronomer to
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the Discovery, the necessary instruments being supplied by the Board
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: of Longitude. The chronometer made by Kendall, which had given
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: such satisfaction last voyage, was again on board the Resolution.
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  Speaker 1: It was afterwards with blygh On the bounty sold by
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  Speaker 1: Adams after the mutiny to an American who sold it
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  Speaker 1: again to Chile. It was then purchased for fifty two
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: pounds ten shillings, repaired and rated, and after keeping fair
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: time for some years, was presented by Admiral Sir Thomas
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Hubert to the United Service Museum, and is still in
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: working order. Clerk in the fleet. On the fifteenth of June,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the two ships sailed for the Now There the Resolution
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  Speaker 1: waited for her captain, whilst the Discovery, under the command
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: of Bernie, went on to Plymouth. But meeting with damage
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: in a gale, had to put into Portland for temporary repairs.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Captain Clerk was detained in London in the rules of
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the Bench, as he had been financially responsible for a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: friend who left him in the lurch. He wrote to
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Banks saying the Jews are exasperated and determined to spare
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: no pains to arrest me. It appears that he contracted
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: the illness which led to his death at that period.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter fifteen.