That Journal of Cook's presented by Sir Joseph Banks, and still to be examined by a visitor at the Museum, is numbered among the "Additional Manuscripts" as _8959_. It is well bound, bearing at the back the words _Mus. Brit.--ex legato--Banks, Bart.--8959_. The priceless copy in Cook's own hand, well written, if not always correctly spelled, is numbered _27,885_ in the Museum Catalogue, and contains on a fly-sheet at the beginning the statement that the _Log_ was purchased of Messrs. Borne on 13th of May, 1868. Cook's own Journal is known generally as the _Autograph_, from bearing his correct signature. The transcriber of the _Endeavour Log, 8959_, possessed by Banks, wrote in a neat but rather small hand, very different from Cook's. It is, as might be well expected of such an early Journal, though passing through Banks's hands, ignorant of the existence of a _Botany Bay_, but refers to _Skeats_ rather than _Stingray_, after which Cook's _Autograph Log_ names the Bay. It has neither _Point Hickes_ nor _Cape Howe_ as in later days, though indicating _Pidgeon's House Hill_ and _Mount Dromedary_. Yet we have _smoaks_ and _smooks_ as in Cook's own hand work. THE PALLISER LOG. The PALLISER LOG, presented by Cook himself to his old American Commander and patron, Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, was examined by me in Sunderland, when invited there by its owner for some days, Mr. R. W. Hudson, the northern shipowner. His lady, a Palliser, assured me the book had never been out of the possession of the family since Cook's gift. I read therein:-- "This Book was a Present from Captain Cook to Sir Hugh Palliser, containing his Logg from the 27th May, 1768, to the 11th June, 1771, during his voyage on board the _Endeavour_ Bark, sent to make observations on the Transit of Venus in the South Seas, and afterwards to make discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere." The book was bound in red morocco, gold bordered, with a fancy back, and marked:-- "COOK'S LOGG BOOK, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771." Though not, as I saw at once, wholly in Cook's handwriting, the record had no knowledge either of _Botany Bay_ or of _New South Wales_, but had the Cook's style of spelling, as: "_severell smokes_ were seen," and "_saw smokes_ upon the shore." What was afterwards known as _Botany Bay_ is there called "_Sting Ray Harbour_." Apart from the Museum Logs, this one is undoubtedly the best authenticated _Cook's Log_. THE DEPTFORD LOGS. Among the profound _Endeavour_ mysteries must be cited the extraordinary disappearance of the Log books of officers in the ship.