Author: WATSON, FREDERICK.
Title: Lieutenant James Cook. And His Voyages in H. M. bark Endeavour.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 37; stiff wrapper, wrapper browned, flecking to page edges, foxing to pages, a good copy. Sydney, Angus And Robertson Limited, 1933. Much controversy was aroused at the time by the publication of this small volume, Watson examines all of the records available at the time and comes to the conclusion that; "The major portion of the journals, now extant were compiled and written in England under official instructions and censorship; that many of the names, including New South Wales and Botany Bay, were given in London, and not by Cook; and that the journals were written for publication to claim possession by prior right of discovery under a belief that the Dutch or some other nation were the first discoverers, this belief being the official and confidential opinion of the Admiralty for fifty-three years at least (until 1824) after the conclusion of the Endeavour voyage.

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