...during the former voyage, and published in Captain Cook's account of it, were furnished by Mr. Anderson. And, that we might go out with every help that could...home, such drawings of the most memorable scenes of cur transactions, as could only be executed by a professed and skilful artist. Every preparation being...

...future navigators. That he might go out with every help, which could serve to make the result of the voyage entertaining to the generality of readers, as well as instructive to the sailor and the scholar, Mr. \Vebber was fixed upon, and engaged to embark in the Resolution, for the express purpose...

...future navigators. That he mipht go out with every help, which could serve to make the result of the voyage entertaining to the generality of readers, as well as instructive to the sailor and the scholar, Mr. Webber was fixed upon, and engaged to embark in the Resolution, for the express purpose...

...His death proved a great loss to the expedition. To quote again from Captain Cook's own narrative : "And, that we might go out with every help that could...the sailor and scholar, Mr. Webber was pitched upon, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Vol. 80, No. 10 2 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL....

...His death proved a great loss to the expedition. To quote again from Captain Cook's own narrative: "And, that we might go out with every help that could...the sailor and scholar, Mr. Webber was pitched upon, SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS, VOL. 80, No. 10 and engaged to embark with me, for the express...

...was not described in the narrative and thus tends to prove the value of Webber's drawings, produced " for the express purpose of supplying the unavoidable imperfections of written accounts." The bands over the ankles conform with Cook's statement that " about their ankles they also frequently...

...carries out what Cook suggests as the function of the illustrations of the voyage: to be "interesting to the generality of readers, as well as instructive to the sailor and the scholar. Mr. Webber was pitched upon ... to bring home such drawings of the most memorable scenes...

...to scientific ends. In commenting on the choice of lohn Webber as the voyage's artist, Cook wrote: "To make the result of our voyage entertaining to...of written accounts, by enabling us to preserve and send home, such drawings of the most memorable scenes of our transactions, as could be executed by...