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. [BACK]

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. [BACK]

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. [BACK]

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. [BACK]

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. [BACK]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. [BACK]

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

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

20. Beaglehole, Voyage of the "Endeavour, " p. cclxxxii. [BACK]

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

22. Beaglehole, Voyage of the "Endeavour, " p. 289. [BACK]

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. [BACK]

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. [BACK]

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. [BACK]

26. Quoted in Beaglehole, Life , p. 458. [BACK]

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

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

29. See Beaglehole, Life , p. 702. [BACK]

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

31. Ibid., p. 643. [BACK]

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

31. Ibid., p. 643. [BACK]

32. Beaglehole, Life , p. 443.

33. Ibid., p. 633. [BACK]

32. Beaglehole, Life , p. 443.

33. Ibid., p. 633. [BACK]

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. [BACK]

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

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

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. [BACK]

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

39. Quoted in Beaglehole, Life , p. 451. [BACK]

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

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

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

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. [BACK]