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six of whom had been promoted to petty officer grade, and three midshipmen, Isaac Smith, William Harvey, and Isaac Manley, had returned. Second Lieutenant John Edgcumbe, the senior marine, was an Endeavour veteran; oddly, Samuel Gibson, a former Tahiti deserter who was now promoted to corporal, was the other returning marine. Cook chose Joseph Gilbert, who had collaborated with him on the Newfoundland survey, to be the master of the Resolution.

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