FAMOUS VOYAGES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 7

FAMOUS VOYAGES

CAPTAIN COOK'S LETTERS. LASHING OF "BOY CONVICTS. (By Telegraph.— Press Association,-- Copyright,) (TIMES AND SIDNEY BUN BKRVICES.) LONDON. 17th May. Captain James Cook's letters, which are to be offered at auction at Sotheby's, describe the first voyago of tho Endeavour. They are written to Mr. John Walker, a partner in a firm of Whitby shipowners to whom Cook was apprenticed. There are also graphic descriptions of the second voyage, including a reference to the Antarctic, saying where the writer is now sure that no southern continent exists there, unless it is so near the Pole that the coast cannot bo navigated because of the ice, and therefore is not worth discovery. Lieutenant Ralph Clark's' diary was written during a voyage to Botany Bay, and is preiaced by a list of convicts, named, on board the transport Friendship, with full particulars of each. Horriblo entries, describing the lashing of boy convicts, appear in the journal. [Four of Captain Cook's letters detailing his visit to tho South Seas, 1 Now Znalnnd, and New South Wales in 1770 ore 'stated a cable message yesterday) to bo auctioned at Sotheby's in July] also, an unpublished diary of Ralph Clarke, lieutenant of Marines in tho ship Friendship, covering the period 17671792, with a gap of two years, and dealing with tho question of transportation. The diary includes an unofficial account of Major Uobs'b rule in Norfolk Island.]