This on-line edition of the journals of Cook's first Pacific voyage has been arranged to allow comparison of the journal Cook kept aboard H.M.S. Endeavour with those written by his fellow voyagers, Joseph Banks and Sydney Parkinson, as well as the official record of the voyage written by John Hawkesworth and published in London in 1773.
This is a literal transcription of Cook's Journal, preserved by the National Library of Australia as Manuscript 1. Cook generally recorded events during the Endeavour voyage on a daily basis. He also wrote detailed descriptions of the places and peoples encountered in the course of the voyage.
This edition of Joseph Banks's Endeavour journal uses the transcription undertaken by the State Library of New South Wales, allowing you to read:
This is the complete text of the first edition of Parkinson's Journal, published in London in 1773.
This is an edition of all three volumes of John Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages...in the Southern Hemisphere. As well as the official account of Cook's first voyage, Hawkesworth's Account contained authorized versions of the journals kept by John Byron, Philip Carteret and Samuel Wallis during their Pacific voyages.