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l>y publishing Cook's Log, gave Cook's eloquent words to the w or 1(1. Still threading his way and naming places on the main- land until he reached Cape York, Cook entered the En- deavour Straits '*in great hopes that we had at last found a passage in the Indian Seas," and *' confident that the eastern coast of Australia (from lat. Sis'" S.) was never seen or visited by any Europt^aii before us; and, notwithstanding I had in the name of His Majesty takeu possession of several places upon this coast, I now once more hoisted English colours, and in the name of His Majesty King George the Third took possession of the whole eastern coast from the above Uititude down to this place by the name of New South Wales,^ together with all the bays, harbours, rivers, and inlands situated iipoi] the said coast, after which we fired three volleys of siuall arms, which were answered by the like number from the ship/' Having satisfied himself that he had *'an open Bea^ to the westward** and that he had thus been able to prove " The Atlniinilty copy and Her Majesty's i;opy of Cook's journal iiichide tbe won! "Soiitlj," which wwts not contained in the copy in Ihe hands of >i r. Seertitary Stephtsns. '* Though the main passage now Wars the name of Torrts, Cook caOed his own passage Endeavour Strait, knowing that he had ptissed hetT>7*!en New fUiinea and Austmlia. When Torres passed lie sitppoaed that the lurid be saw at Cape Yoik was an ialand, and thfit there were more ishind.s to tlie soutluvard. Couk wna thenfoie the real discoverer, for only be discovera wlio provt's. Mr. Major {**KarIy Voyaiies," &e, ) says that whtn, at the capture of Manilla l>y the EngUsb in I7tj2, it waa found that Torres, in sailing along the ooiith coaat of New tininea, had nn- wittingly passed through the strmit, '* Fialryinple paid a fitting tribute" to Torres by giving bis nunie to the strait^ "which it has ever since retained. It is to be feared that Alexander Dairy in ^jle had a meaner motive. He had applied for the connnaiid of a vea»el sent for the par|X>se of obtaining observaliona of the transit of Venns in IT^tlt anrl Cf>ok had la^en preferred. With **Cook'fi Voyages' a large map, *'by Lieut^^iiant H, Roberts, R.N.," was pnbliiihed in 1785. In that map the name of Torres was not used ; and it ia btiimge that the Adnnralty sanctioned (if indeed they ever formally sanctioned) the cancelling of the honour acipiired by Cook. Mr. Major waa aware of l)alrym]des Irijuatiue to Cook, for in Ids ** I'iacoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator'* (London, 1H77I bo aaya **il is greatly to be regretted that Dalrymple , . , hydrographer . . . who panted for the glory of discovering a great Botitheni continent, shoold have allowed ills jealousy of i'uptain Cook's appointment to ihe Kitdfuvour to lead him into an injurious insinnation that the great captain's dis- coveries an the eoaiit of New Holland were the result of bia aeqnaintancc wjtJi one of preexisiEHi maps." Perhaps it ia now too late to renieily tb«  4 I