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Following them, the task of evaluating Cook’s.Captain James Cook > Cook As A Commander. My previous article covered the participant- historians of Cook, Johan Reinhold and George Forster. Following them, the task of evaluating Cook’s governance of his men fell to a wide variety of historians. The first two, were Anglican clergy. Andrew Kippis. The first of these, was the Reverend Doctor Andrew Kippis (1. Beaglehole: had all the opportunities and threw them away.. He boiled down the seven large volumes of the official accounts of the voyages all right; and made a half- hearted attempt to collect a few facts about his hero’s early life, and got most of them wrong. Kippis does not have a lot to say about Cook as a commander but near the end of his book, after commenting on Cook’s skill as a navigator, he adds: To all these great qualities Captain Cook added the amiable virtues. That it was impossible for any one to excel him in humanity, is apparent from his treatment of his men through all the voyages, and from his behaviour to the natives of the countries which were discovered by him. The health, the convenience and, as far as it could be admitted, the enjoyment of the seamen, were the constant objects of his attention.. After this fulsome, and subjective list of encomiums, Kippis does admit that, . This, which has been exaggerated by the few (and they are few) who are unfavourable to his memory, is acknowledged by his friends. The same year that Kippis’s book was published, George Forster severely criticized it. Digital Comic Museum For Download. Harry 'A' Chesler Comics 1937-1946 Chesler (the 'A' stood for 'Anything') was a comic book packager and publisher. According to Forster, it: was nothing but a mere compilation; Kippis did not even try to draw a comprehensive picture of Cook’s personality and was unable to set Cook’s remarkable enterprise and their effects on his contemporaries and on posterity into the appropriate philosophical perspective.. George Young. Cook’s next ordained biographer was the Reverend George Young of Whitby, who penned, in 1. His book was a piece of Victorian prudery and nonsense. Wharton. In 1. 89. Captain W. J. L. Wharton, contributed an edited version of Cook’s journal of his first voyage. On Cook as a commander Wharton declares: he drove his people hard; though he tried them with his irascibility; their conviction of his greatness, their confidence in his leadership and in his justice, led them to love him. He had no sympathy with the ordinary foibles and weaknesses of his men.. The strongest proof of his capacity as a commander is the devotion of his officers. Those who know the Navy know how difficult it is for any man who rises from the ranks to be successful in command. But Cook was a gentleman born; he had the intuition of great minds for fitting themselves to every position to which they may rise and there is never a whisper of disinclination to submit to the rule of the once collier boy, the son of a labourer. Arthur Kitson. The next Cook historian of note was Arthur Kitson (1. Beaglehole maintains that although he did good and essential work, and . Stephens and Marine Dunster at Madeira during the first voyage, for refusing their allowance of fresh beef. The twelve lashes each, that Cook ordered them to receive, were rationalized as: This appears to be harsh treatment, but it must be remembered that the lash was at that time almost the only recognized method of punishment in the Navy for offences however trivial, and also that Cook knew from his own experience, how important it was to prevent the scurvy from once getting a foothold on board, and was determined to fight this, almost his most dangerous foe, by every means in his power. Able Seaman Archibald Wolfe’s two dozen lashes for breaking into the ship’s storeroom and stealing spiked nails, was noted by Kitson as the punishment which, . Also, the following month, Marines Clement Webb and Samuel Gibson received two dozen lashes each, for desertion. Later in his book, Kitson repeats his allegation that two dozen lashes for theft was the heaviest sentence decreed on the first voyage, after claiming that, . The Second and Third Lieutenants, the Lieutenant of Marines; two of the Warrant officers; and several of the petty officers had been with me during the former voyage. The others were men of known abilities; and all of them, on every occasion showed their zeal for the service in which they were employed, during the whole voyage. In another context, he applauds Cook’s remarks about his officers’ concurrence in his plans to continue exploration in the South Atlantic in 1. He sees no irony in Cook’s remarks about the seamen, . Three dozen lashes appears to have been the highest number awarded at a time, when hundreds were often allotted to the unfortunate offenders against discipline. In his final pages, Kitson cites the eulogy he found in the. Gentlemen’s Magazine. That he commanded the love and respect of his men is proved by the fact that several accompanied him through all three voyages, and several more through two, and by the ease with which he filled up his complement when it was announced he was to hoist his pennant. G. Arnold Wood. After Kitson, there was a hiatus in Cook historiography. The Manchester- and- Oxford- trained, English expatriate, Professor of History at Sydney University, G. Arnold Wood, had his, The Voyage of the Endeavour, published in 1. In this book, he describes Cook as, . But he believed far more in the persuading power of words of encouragement and praise; and he gave them as he gave lashes, when they were deserved and much more frequently. And when the faults were incurable, he thanked God that they were not worse. One aspect of Cook’s management of men that Wood highlights, was his fairness in the distribution of any extras that nature and / or fortune provided. Commenting on what the Australian coast furnished in the vicinity of the Endeavour River, (mostly turtles and fish), Cook wrote and Wood quotes: Whatever refreshments we got that would bear a division I caused to be equally divided amongest the whole company generally by weight, the meanest person in the Ship had an equal share with myself or any one on board, and this method every commander of a Ship on such a Voyage as this ought ever to observe. In his,The Discovery of Australia. Wood gives a vivid description of the behaviour on board the Endeavour when it was holed on the Great Barrier Reef. After describing the occurrence he alleges: Cook seldom praised people, and when he praised, he praised in measured words. His sailors got more floggings than compliments, and there are hints that he regarded . Yet he now allowed himself to write- ’In justice to the Ships Company I must say that no men ever behaved better than they had on this occasion, animated by the behavour of every gentleman on board, every man seem’d to have a just sence of the danger we were in and exerted himself to the very utmost. Wood’s final summing up is: Both officers and gentlemen proved themselves heroes. But let us not miss the opportunity to do justice to the seamen of the Endeavour. They were not wholly heroes. They got drunk whenever they could get drink. Yet they were at least able to see something heroic in the man who ruled them, and to strive bravely and faithfully for the ship in the face of appalling danger. J. Holland Rose. On the evening of 1. December 1. 92. 8, J. Holland Rose read a paper to a meeting of the Geographical Society. Gould made his notable contribution to Cook biography in 1. He points out that in dealing with scurvy, Cook . They had to keep their quarters clean, and their clothing dry. Whenever possible, the former were fumigated, and the latter aired. Fresh meat and vegetables were issued whenever such could be procured- and, at other times, sauerkraut or . Whatever was issued, too, had to be eaten. And- a grievance beyond all others- their Captain would delegate no part of his responsibility for their health, either to the ship’s surgeon or anyone else; when he gave any order on that subject he saw to it, personally and with emphasis, that the order was exactly obeyed. At first they were by no means grateful- they endured his . Many would give- who have given- their lives for fame, have failed to achieve it: some who have snatched at it too eagerly have found that, once in their grasp, it was not fame but infamy: And those who have won it have never, I think, consciously aimed at it, but have been content simply to do their duty, as they saw it, in accordance with a self- set standard too high for their fellows. Such men are the true salt of the earth- and such a man, beyond all question, was James Cook. Gordon Campbell. Vice- Admiral Gordon Campbell had his Captain Cook published in 1. His work draws attention to the fact that there were more volunteers for the second voyage than were required, and that many had to be turned away, . To Carrington: Cook was no blustering sea- bully; rather he was one of those combinations of the scientific and the practical who appear once in a generation, leaving behind an indelible mark upon the progress of the human race.’3. Carrington is worth quoting on Cook’s measures to combat scurvy: Much has been made of Cook’s part in the elimination of scurvy. After all he applied only the methods and preventives prescribed or suggested by his superiors. The point is he applied them. He took every precaution against scurvy and insisted by precept, example and authority upon the precautions being taken. It was a matter of discipline not medicine; just as in France in 1. His conquest of scurvy had nothing to do with the invention of remedies; it is a tribute to him as a commander and leader of men. Carrington alleges that in his personal relations, Cook suffered from a lack of humour, but that he could be sympathetic to the requests of others, and that he could, at the appropriate occasion, . That both officers and men continued to sail with him was, Carrington contends, . At sea, Cook was able, . People in the ship seldom knew his intentions or in what direction he would sail until he set out the course.
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