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& have since by the whole tenor of my conversation & Correspondence pledgd myself to all Europe to go the voyage, & not only to go the voyage but to engage take with me as many able artists as the Income of my Fortune would allow me to pay as companions of my undertaking], by whose means the Learned world in general might reap as much benefit as possible from those discoveries which my good Fortune or industry might enable me to make.
My Friend Dr Solander
With this view I engagd Mr. Zoffany a Painter of well Known abilities & five others to accompany me, who were to delineate such objects as I might think worthy to be presented to my friends at home, & assist me in Keeping such Journals etc. as the nature of the undertaking might require. my Friend Dr Solander also voluntarily engag'd to take the department of Natural History Conscious that his abilities & experience could