CAPTAIN COOK'S LETTERS.

Grey River Argus, 28 May 1914, Page 7

CAPTAIN COOK'S LETTERS.

.*, L \SHING OF BOTANY CONVICTS. BOYS HORRIBLY BEATEN. (Per Independent Cable Service.j LONDON, May 18. Messrs Sotheby, the well-known Lonc^n sellers of^ antiques, will offer on j -ne 19 the letters wntten by Captain C >ok to John Wailker, a partner in a I'm of Whitby ship-owners, describ--3 '%■ the first voyage of the Endeavour. Captain Cook was apprenticed to \\alkers' ? and the papers also include f l ' sicnptions of the Endeavour's second \ ">yage, with a refrence to Antartica, • 1 which the explorer says — "We are M)vt sure that no southern continent 1 xists there, unles it is so near the Sauth Pole that the. coast cannot be r ivigated for the ice, and is 'therefore v.n worthy of disco very. At the same sale will be offered the o'igmal, unpublished diary of Ralph C lark, a lieutenant of Marines, cover. lig the period from 1787 to 1792, and \\ ritten during a voyage to Botany ]>ay jr. :he Lrarsp tship Friendship. The details co 'er Lieutenant C'hik's say in Ausl"! a arc! Norfolk Island, ■md the first section of the diary is prefaced by the list of the names o ftho convicts aboard the ship, with I particulars regarding them. The lashings of boy convicts-are described as being particularly horrible;