In March 1923 the Commonwealth Government secured for the people of Australia the Journal kept by Captain James Cook during his famous voyage of discovery in H.M.S. Endeavour : from which have been reprinted these passages, in the hope that there may be kindled in the minds of the children of Australia, an interest in that great navigator to whom we owe the possession of our Australian continent / presented by the Committee of the Commonwealth National Library

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