"The Journals of Captain James Cook" – ed. by J. C. Beaglehole

published for the Hakluyt Society–(1955) Vol. 1, p. 273

Beaglehole adds a most pertinent footnote: "One regrets, however academically, that Cook sailed 'in a straight line from one Cape to the other'; for if he had turned Cape Farewell, or rather Farewell Spit, he could hardly have failed to recognize Murderers' (Massacre, now Golden) Bay. Unfortunately he had only an abstract of Tasman's Journal, but broadly he was right: what he called Blind Bay is in reality two bays – the smaller, or north-west one, where Tasman had his encounter, divided from the larger part by the irregular triangle of land that d'Urville later called Separation Point. The name Blind Bay was later confined to this part, until it became officially Tasman Bay."

Accompanying Cook in the Endeavour was Joseph Banks, a man of large private means who enjoyed a considerable scientific reputation. Banks kept his own diary of the voyage and this was also edited by J. C. Beaglehole.