Historical Records of New Zealand Vol. II.
The Lords of the Admiralty to Lieutenant Cook
The Lords of the Admiralty to Lieutenant Cook.
Having ordered the complement of his Maj't's bark under your command to be increased to eighty-five men, you are hereby required and directed to enter as many seamen as, with the page 56 proportion of marines whom we have ordered to be put on board her at Plymouth, will increase her present complement to that number accordingly.
Ed. Hawke.
C. Townshend.
Py. Brett.