ANTARCTICA.
'NOT WORTH DISCOVERING."
CAPTAIN COOK'S CONCLUSION
("Times" and "Sydney Sun" Services.) (Received May ISth, 5.5 p.m.)
LONDON, May IS
Captain Cook's letters, to be offered by auction at Sotheby's, include ono containing an accouut of his first voyage in the Endeavour, written to John Walker, nartner in a firm of Whitb> .shipowners to whom Cook was apprenticed.
Tjiero are also letters containing graphic descriptions of the second voyage, including tho following reference to Antarctica:—"l am now suro that no southern continent exists there, unless it is so near to the Polo that tho coast cannot bo navigated for ice, and, therefore, not worth discovering-"
Ralph Clarke's diary, written during tho voyage to Botany Bay, is prefaced by a list of tho convicts aboard the transport Friendship, with full particulars of the case of each. "The diary contains horriblo entrios describing tho lashes inflicted on boy convicts.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14971, 19 May 1914, Page 7
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