1. O. H. K. Spate, The Pacific Since Magellan , Vol. II: Monopolists and Freebooters (London and Canberra, 1983), p. vii.

2. Ibid., especially chap. 6, and Glyndwr Williams, "'The Inexhaustible Fountain of Gold': English Projects and Ventures in the South Seas, 1670-1750," in John E. Flint and Glyndwr Williams, Perspectives of Empire (London, 1973), pp. 27-53.

1. O. H. K. Spate, The Pacific Since Magellan , Vol. II: Monopolists and Freebooters (London and Canberra, 1983), p. vii.

2. Ibid., especially chap. 6, and Glyndwr Williams, "'The Inexhaustible Fountain of Gold': English Projects and Ventures in the South Seas, 1670-1750," in John E. Flint and Glyndwr Williams, Perspectives of Empire (London, 1973), pp. 27-53.

3. William Dampier, A New Voyage Round the World , edited by A. Gray (1697; London, 1937), pp. 312-313; A Voyage to New Holland , edited by J. A. Williamson (1703; London, 1939), pp. 102-103; see also Glyndwr Williams, "'Far More Happier Than We Europeans': Reactions to the Australian Aborigines on Cook's Voyage," Historical Studies 20 (1981): 499-512.

4. Norman J. W. Thrower, ed., The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the "Paramore" 1698-1701 (London, 1981), pp. 268-269.

5. Ibid., p. 60.

4. Norman J. W. Thrower, ed., The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the "Paramore" 1698-1701 (London, 1981), pp. 268-269.

5. Ibid., p. 60.

6. Daniel Defoe, A Plan of the English Commerce , 2nd ed. (London, 1720), p. xiv.

7. See Michèle Duchet, Anthropologie et histoire au siècle des lumières (Paris, 1971), pp. 60, 108.

8. Richard Walter and Benjamin Robins, A Voyage Round the Worm . . . by George Anson (London, 1748), introduction.

9. See Gavan Daws, A Dream of Islands (New York, 1980).

10. J. C. Beaglehole, ed., The Journals of Captain James Cook: The Voyage of the "Resolution" and "Adventure" 1772-1775 (Cambridge, 1961), p. 381n.

11. See Robert E. Gallagher, ed., Byron's Journal of His Circumnavigation 1764-1766 (Cambridge, 1964).

12. Hugh Carrington, ed., The Discovery of Tahiti . . . (London, 1948), p. 135.

13. Beaglehole, Voyage of the "Resolution" and "Adventure, " p. 322.

14. Helen Wallis, ed., Carteret's Voyage Round the World 1766-1769 (Cambridge, 1965), I, p. 96.

15. Quoted in T.M. Curley, Samuel Johnson and the Age of Travel (Athens, Ga., 1976), p. 66.

16. J. C. Beaglehole, ed., The Journals of Captain James Cook: The Voyage of the "Endeavour" 1768-1771 (Cambridge, 1955), p. 514.

17. I have expanded on this point in P.J. Marshall and Glyndwr Williams, The Great Map of Mankind: British Perceptions of the World in the Age of Enlightenment (London, 1982), especially chap. 9.

18. Bronislaw Malinowski, Argonauts of the Western Pacific (New York, 1932), foreword.

19. J. C. Beaglehole, The Life of Captain James Cook (London, 1974), p. 280.

20. Beaglehole, Voyage of the "Endeavour, " p. cclxxxii.

21. Beaglehole, Voyage of the "Resolution" and "Adventure, " p. 695.

22. Beaglehole, Voyage of the "Endeavour, " p. 289.

23. See "Medical Aspects and Consequences of Cook's Voyages," in Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston, eds., Captain Cook and His Times (Vancouver and London, 1979), pp. 129-157.

24. Ibid., p. 129.

23. See "Medical Aspects and Consequences of Cook's Voyages," in Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston, eds., Captain Cook and His Times (Vancouver and London, 1979), pp. 129-157.

24. Ibid., p. 129.

25. On all these issues see the recent, authoritative biography by John Lawrence Abbott, John Hawkesworth: Eighteenth-Century Man of Letters (Madison, 1982), chap. 7.

26. Quoted in Beaglehole, Life , p. 458.

27. See Paul Kaufman, Borrowings from the Bristol Library 1773-1784 (Charlottesville, Va., 1960).

28. Quoted in Helen Wallis's "Conclusion" to Hugh Cobbe, ed., Cook's Voyages and Peoples of the Pacific (London, 1979), p. 130.

29. See Beaglehole, Life , p. 702.

30. Beaglehole, Voyage of the "Resolution" and "Adventure, " p. 638.

31. Ibid., p. 643.

30. Beaglehole, Voyage of the "Resolution" and "Adventure, " p. 638.

31. Ibid., p. 643.

32. Beaglehole, Life , p. 443.

33. Ibid., p. 633.

32. Beaglehole, Life , p. 443.

33. Ibid., p. 633.

34. See J.C. Beaglehole, ed., The Journals of Captain James Cook: The Voyage of the "Resolution" and "Discovery" 1776-1780 (Cambridge, 1967); see also Glyndwr Williams, "Myth and Reality: James Cook and

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the Theoretical Geography of Northwest America," in Fisher and Johnston, Captain Cook and His Times , pp. 59-79.

35. Quoted in Beaglehole, Voyage of the "Endeavour, " p. cxxii.

36. Bernard Smith, "Cook's Posthumous Reputation," in Fisher and Johnston, Captain Cook and His Times , p. 161.

37. Quoted in Michael E. Hoare, "Two Centuries' Perceptions of James Cook: George Forster to Beaglehole," in Fisher and Johnston, Captain Cook and His Times , p. 212.

38. Beaglehole, Voyage of the "Resolution" and "Discovery, " p. 1436.

39. Quoted in Beaglehole, Life , p. 451.

40. George Vancouver, A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean (London, 1798), I, vi.

41. Anders Sparrman, A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope (London, 1785), p. xv.

42. Beaglehole, Voyage of the "Endeavour, " pp. 275-276.

43. Quoted in Alan Frost, "New Geographical Perspectives and the Emergence of the Romantic Imagination," in Fisher and Johnston, Captain Cook and HIS Times , p. 6.