Hawkesworth all the Journals kept by Cook, Banks, and others on board of the Endeavour. Hawkesworth explained in his Preface that the book was compiled from the Journals of Cook, Banks, and others, "all parties acquiescing" in the arrangement that Hawkesworth should use the first person (in the name of Cook) throughout.
The journal of Sir Joseph Banks was copious, and for many years towards the close of the nineteenth century there was an uneasy feeling that Hawkesworth had given to the public too little of Cook and too much of Banks; although Hawkesworth plainly stated that he received Cook's Journal from the Admiralty before he received that of Banks.
Some sceptics went so far as to contend at great length, that Cook did not name Botany Bay, Port Jackson, or New South Wales, and the absence of Cook's ipsissima verba left the field open to doubters.
Even in the "Historical Records of New South Wales," published by the Government in 1893, the editor said, "It is a remarkable fact that nowhere in the original papers of either Cook or any of his officers does the name 'New South Wales' appear. As in the case of Botany Bay it seems to have been an afterthought" . . . "there is no foundation for the popular impression that Cook bestowed the name New South Wales on the territory. . . . The name appears to have originated with Hawkesworth."
Cook's Journal, published in England in 1893, decided the matter. On the 22nd August 1770, he wrote: "In the name of His Majesty King George the Third I took possession of the whole Eastern Coast (from lat 37° down to this place) by the name of New South Wales,"
