Gallery: Australia’s Desert Landscapes
We look eagerly into his virtuous life for some smallredeeming vice. “Temperance in him,” wrote Captain King, who sailedin the final voyage, “was scarcely a virtue; so great was theindifference with which he submitted to every sort of self-denial.”Surgeon Samwell quarrels with this statement. Cook, he says “had norepugnance to good dwelling; he all the