CAPTAIN COOK'S LETTERS
.VALUABLE NARRATIVES OF FAMOUS VOYAGES. By Telezra.ph—Press Aesociation-CopyriEht "Tjmes" and Sydney "Sun" Servicce. (Rcc. May 18, 5.C5 p.m.) London, May 17. Captain James Cook's letters, which are t<\ be offered at, auction at Sotheby's, deseribo tho first voyage of the Endeavour. They aro written to Mr. John Walker, a partner in the firm of Whitby's, shipowners, to whom Cook was apprenticed. .' There are also graphic descriptions of tho second voyago, including a reference to tho Antarctic, saying where- tho writer is now sure that no southern continent exists thcro, unless it is so near tho Polo that tho coast cannot bo navigated, because of tho 1 ice, and therefore is not worth discovery.
Lieutenant Ralph Clarke's diary was written, during a voyage to Botany Bay, and is prefaced by a list of convicts, named, on board the transport Friendship, with full -particulars of each._ Horrible entries, describing tho lashing of boy convicts, appear in tho journal.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 5
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159CAPTAIN COOK'S LETTERS Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 5
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