The command of the expedition was at first intended for Dalrymple, the celebrated geographer and then chief Hydrographer to the Admiralty.
"The Naval Pioneers of Australia"
Louis Becke and Walter Jeffery
The first of the three was the celebrated Joseph Moxon, who, in 1659, added type-founding to his other callings of mathematician and Hydrographer.
"A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898"
Henry R. Plomer
We had intended making an expedition into the Hydrographer range of mountains, which we could see from here, and which were unexplored, but Monckton and Acland were far from well, and most of our carriers and police were down with fever, and so, greatly to my disappointment, this had to be abandoned.
"Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines"
H. Wilfrid Walker