Captain Cook in New South Wales; Or, The Mystery of Naming Botany Bay

THE MYSTERY OF NAMING BOTANY BAY
JAMES BONWICK, F.R.G.S.
AUTHOR OF GEOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIA, LAST OF THE TASMANIANS, ETC., ETC.
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON AND CO., Ltd. ST. DUNSTAN'S HOUSE, FETTER LANE 1901

Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, LONDON AND BUNGAY.

This being the age of criticism, and not the time of taking for granted as a fact whatever one had heard from book or speech, an investigation of the story of Cook's Discovery of New South Wales may neither be unwelcome nor unexpected.
The story must have been deemed of consequence, when the Admiralty was willing to pay Dr. Hawkesworth six thousand guineas, or pounds, as reported, to write the account of that voyage in H.M.S. Endeavour .
Though even after its appearance some doubts were expressed as to its propriety, or even veracity, yet some allowance was made for professional jealousies, as well as for the paucity of information upon Australian matters, and the want of means either to substantiate or reject the assertions of the writer.