he contrary
effect."

Cook says that the introduction of the most salutary articles would prove
unsuccessful unless accompanied by strict regulations so the crew were
divided into three watches except on some extraordinary occasion, in
order that they might not be so exposed to the weather, and had a better
chance to get into dry clothes if they happened to get wet. Hammocks,
bedding, clothes, and ship were kept as clean and dry as possible, and
when the ship could not be "cured with fires," once or twice a week she
was smoked with gunpowder, mixed with vinegar or water:

"to cleanliness, as well in the ship as amongst the people, too great
attention cannot be paid: the least neglect occasions a putrid and
disagreeable smell below which nothing but fires will remove."

He finishes his paper read before the Royal Society as follows:

"We came to few places where either the art of man or the bounty of
nature had not provided some sort of refreshment or other, either in the
animal or vegetable way. It was my first care to procure whatever of any
kind could be met with, by every means in my power, and to oblige our
people to make use thereof, both by my example and authority; but the
benefits arising from refreshments of any kind soon became so obvious
that I had little occasion to recommend the one or exert the other."

COPLEY GOLD MEDAL.

On the 30th November 1776 Sir John Pringle, President of the Royal
Society, in his address to the Fellows, announced that the Copley Gold
Medal had been conferred on Captain Cook for his paper on the Treatment
of Scurvy, and gave some corroborative facts which had come under his own
observation, concluding his speech as follows:

"If Rome decreed the Civic Crown to him who saved the life of a single
citizen, what wreaths are due to that man, who, having himself saved
many, perpetuates in your Transactions the means by which Britain may
now, on the most distant voyages, preserve numbers of her intrepid sons,
her mariners; who, braving every danger, have so liberally contributed to
the fame, to the opulence, and to the Maritime Empire of this country."

Before Cook left England on his last voyage he had been informed that the
medal had been conferred on him, but he never received it, and it was
presented to Mrs. Cook, and is now in the British Museum.

During May 1776 Cook sat for his portrait, now in the Painted Hall,
Greenwich, to Sir Nathaniel Dance. There are several portraits