You may be assured that I shall make no unnecessary delay either here or at any other place, but shall make the best of my way home.

I have the Honour to be with the greatest respect, "Sir, "Your most Obedient Humble Servant, "(Signed) JAMES COOK.
"Endeavour Bark, at Onrust, near Batavia, the 23rd of October, 1770." "Although the discoveries made in this voyage are not great." In these modest words does Cook describe his work.

I read them to mean that with his love of accuracy he did not wish to claim his explorations of New Zealand and the East Coast of Australia as discoveries, as it was already known that lands existed there; but seeing how little was known, and how completely he did his work, there are but few men who would have refrained from classing them, as indeed he truly might have, as discoveries.) Friday, 26th.

Set up the Ship's Tent for the reception of the Ship's Company, several of them begin to be taken ill, owing, as I suppose, to the extream hot weather.
[Heaving down at Batavia.] Saturday, 27th.

Employed getting out Stores, Ballast, etc.
Sunday, 28th.