 Reviewers complained that the reader had no way to tell which part of the account was Cook, which part Banks and which part Hawkesworth and others were offended by the books'
descriptions of the voyagers' sexual encounters with the Tahitians.Cook was at sea again before the book was published and was later much disturbed by some of the sentiments that Hawkesworth has ascribed to him.He determined to edit his own journals in future.