ships, such as are built for the coal trade, and in none other."

The larger of the two chosen was 462 tons, purchased for 4,151 pounds,
and received into the Royal Navy under the name of the Drake. She was
fitted as a sloop at Deptford, at a cost of 6,568 pounds (this sum,
probably, covering both the original alterations which proved
unsatisfactory and those made immediately before sailing), and at the
time of her purchase was about fourteen months old. The second ship was
of 336 tons, also fitted at Deptford as a sloop, was eighteen months old
at time of purchase, cost 2,103 pounds, and was received under the name
of Raleigh.

The complement of the Raleigh was eighty, but two additional carpenters'
mates were added to each ship later on. Cook was also instructed not to
bear, as was then usual, any servants on the books, but to enter A.B.s
instead, and each officer who was entitled to a servant was "to be paid
an allowance by Bill equal to the wages of the number of servants
respectively allowed them."

On 25th December the names of the two ships were changed, the Drake
becoming the Resolution, and the Raleigh the Adventure. The lieutenants
appointed to the Resolution were Robert Pallisser Cooper, Charles Clerke,
and Richard Pickersgill, and Mr. Tobias Furneaux, Commander, and Joseph
Shank first lieutenant, of the Adventure. Of these officers Cook writes:

"I had all the reason in the World to be perfectly satisfied with the
choice of the officers. The Second and Third Lieutenants, the Lieutenant
of Marines, two of the Warrant officers, and several of the Petty
officers had been with me during the former voyage. The others were men
of known abilities, and all of them on every occasion showed their zeal
for the service in which they were employed during the whole voyage."

ALTERATIONS TO THE RESOLUTION.

Two days after receiving his orders, Cook hoisted his pendant and
superintended the alterations that were to be made for the accommodation
of Mr. Banks and his party of scientists. These comprised Dr. Solander,
Zoffani, the portrait painter, Dr. Lynd of Edinburgh, to secure whose
services Parliament had made a special grant of 4000 pounds (though "what
discoveries they expected him to make I could not understand," says
Cook), and nine others, draughtsmen and servants; at least three more
than had been thought necessary when the vessel was purchased. These
alterations were:

"to raise her upper works about a foo