ught home some of the richest goods made in the east,
which they are suffered to dispose of without the inspection of the
Custom House officers. This, our correspondent says, is allowed them by
the Government as a reward for their hard and dangerous service during a
voyage of three years."

The amount of the "richest goods made in the East" obtained from New
Zealand, Australia, and Otaheite would be but a poor reward for three
years' strenuous service; and Cook here finds his premonition as to his
losses being exaggerated, only too true.

It is worthy of note that the number of punishments throughout the voyage
was remarkably small, those entered in the ship's log being twenty-one,
and the heaviest sentence, two dozen lashes for theft. In one case, that
of Mathew Cox, A.B., for disobedience and mutinous conduct, the culprit
proceeded civilly against Cook, on arrival in England, and the Admiralty
solicitors were instructed to defend. The case was probably allowed to
drop, as no result can be found.

LAST OF THE ENDEAVOUR.

The good ship which had so bravely borne her part, was not given much
rest; but after being paid off at Woolwich, was despatched, under
lieutenant James Gordon, to the Falkland Islands on 16th October, and
returned with "perishable and unserviceable" stores; in 1772 and 1773 she
again made voyages to the same destination, the last one to bring away
the garrison and stores, as those islands were to be handed over to
Spain. She was paid off at Woolwich in September 1774, and shortly
afterwards was sold out of the Navy for the sum of 645 pounds. She is
then believed to have been employed as a collier in the North Seas. Mr.
Gibbs, of the firm of Gibbs and Canning of Newport, Rhode Island, one day
pointed out to the English Consul the remains of an old vessel falling
into decay, and informed him that it was Captain Cook's ship, the
Endeavour. His story was that the French Government being anxious to
compete with England in the whale fishery, offered a bounty to the ships
in that trade sailing under the French flag. A Mr. Hayden purchased the
old ship from a Dunkirk firm and re-christened her La Liberte, loaded her
with oil and consigned her, under French colours, to Gibbs and Canning at
Newport. She was chased by an English ship, but escaped, and after laying
alongside a wharf for some months received a cargo, but running aground
in trying to leave the harbour, she was found in such a bad condition
that