[3] It was not the only traveller with Cook to have previously travelled on the Dolphin, which also included the ship's master Robert Molyneuax, ship's master's mates Charles Clerke, Richard Pickersgill, and Francis Wilkinson, and the lieutenant John Gore.
[4] It had a Latin poem, a distich, written for it by Samuel Johnson at the request of Joseph Banks, which Banks had engraved upon the goat's collar:[5][6] Perpetui, ambita bis terra, premia lactis Haec habet, altrici Capra secunda Jovis.
Translated to English this reads "The globe twice circled, this the Goat, the second to the nurse of Jove, is thus rewarded for her never-failing milk.
"[7] Johnson's biographer gave a somewhat lengthier and looser translation, attributed to "a friend":[6][8] In fame scarce second to the nurse of Jove, This Goat, who twice the world had traversed round, Deserving both her master’s care and love, Ease and perpetual pasture now has found.
"[8] Oskar Spate observed that the goat's fate was more fortunate than that of Amalthea, the aforementioned "nurse of Jove".