Volume 1

An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor, drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq / By John Hawkesworth ... ; illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered or hitherto but imperfectly known.

John Hawkesworth

Date:: 1773

Credit: An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of His present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor, drawn up from the journals kept by the several commanders, and from the papers of Joseph Banks, Esq / By John Hawkesworth ... ; illustrated with cuts and a great variety of charts and maps relative to countries now first discovered or hitherto but imperfectly known. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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T Q THE SECOND EDITION. SINCE the publication of the firft edition of this work, a quarto pamphlet has appeared, under the title of “ A Letter from Mr. Dalrymple to Dr. Hawkefworth, occa- “ lioned by fome groundlefs and illiberal Imputations in his “ Account of the'late Voyages to the South Seas.” Upon reading this letter I found that the Imputations faid to be groundlefs. and illiberal were imputed to me; that I was charged with having formed fuppofitions injurious to Mr. Dalrymple, with contradiding a known faft, with ignorant criticifms on his obfervations, and with fupprefTing whatever would do him credit. As I had declared in my general Introdudlion, that “ the account was drawn up from “ the journals kept by the Commanders of the feveral fhips, and from other affiftance, (the papers of Mr. Banks) with “ liberty however of interfperfing fuch fentirnents and ob- “ fervations as my fubje(51: fhould fugged,” I wondered at firft at this Gentleman’s hafte to. vent his refentment againft me, before he had informed himfelf whether I was in fault, which not only in candour but in juft ice he fhould certainly have done, efpecially as both my perfon and place of abode are well known to him, but I foon difcovered that my book found him in an ill-humour. He pathetically complains of an influence which prevented him from going in tlie Endeavour; of an injury done him in depriving him of the fhip he had VoL. I. [A] chofen

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