the Antelope or Tweed as might be
convenient. He is to be found on the latter ship, entered "for victuals
only," as "Mr. James Cook, Engineer, and Retinue." As the dates in the
two ships often run over each other it is somewhat difficult to place
him, but he was certainly in the neighbourhood of St. John's for some two
months, and on 5th November he was discharged from the Antelope into the
Tweed, together with Mr. Smart, for the passage to England, where he
remained till the spring of the following year. On 4th January the
Admiralty authorised the payment up to the end of the previous year of
the allowances of 10 shillings and 6 shillings per day, respectively, to
Mr. Cook and Mr. Smart. This allowance of 10 shillings per day was the
same as that made to the Commander of a Squadron, so, from a financial
point of view, Cook's position must be considered one of importance. It
was apparently superior to that of a Master surveying under the
directions of the Governor, for in a report that Captain Pallisser, when
Governor of Newfoundland, gives of an interview between the French
Ambassador and himself in London in 1767, on the subject of the
fisheries, he says he produced Cook's chart, and decided the question of
the rights of France to the use of Belle Isle for fishing purposes
against the Ambassador by its means, and he speaks of Cook officially as
the King's Surveyor.

Pallisser was appointed to succeed Graves as Governor in 1764, and at
once set aside the schooner Grenville, which Graves had used as a
despatch boat for the sole use of the survey party. She had been manned
from the ships on the station, but Pallisser wrote to the Admiralty on
the subject, and the Navy Board were instructed to establish her with a
proper person to take command of her, and a complement of men sufficient
to navigate her to England when the surveying season was over, in order
that she might be refitted and sent out early in the spring, instead of
being laid up in St. John's and waiting for stores from England, "whereby
a great deal of time is lost." The establishment was to consist of ten
men, i.e. a Master, a Master's mate, one Master's servant, and seven men.
The Master and mate were to receive the pay of a sixth rate, and the
former was "to be charged with the provisions and stores which shall be
supplied to the schooner from time to time, and to pass regular accounts
for the same." On 2nd May Stephens wrote to Pallisser that Cook was
app