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night, they could not venture to run into the harbour, but remained at anchor duringthe two fucceeding days, in the courfe of which they obferved four Indians on the hills,who dropped and made two fires.

The men by this time began to be affliflred with the fcurvy, and their Indian friend,Tupia, was fo bad with it, that he had livid fpots on both his legs. Mr. Green, theaftronomer, was likewife ill of the fame diforder; fo that their being detained fromlanding was every way difagreeable. The wind continued frefh till Sunday the 17th,but they then refolved to pulh in for the harbour, and twice run the fhip a-ground;the fecond time of which file ftuck faft.; on which they took the bottoms, fore-yards,and fore top-mafts down, and made a raft on the fide of the fhip; and, as the tidehappened to be rifing, Ihe floated at one o’clock. She was now foon got into theharbour, where fhe was moored along the fide of a beach, and the anchors, cables, &c.immediately taken out of her.

On Monday morning they erected a tent for the fick, feverai of whom were brought■on fhore as foon as it was ready for their reception. They likewife built a tent tohold the provifions and flores, which were landed the fame day. The boat was nowdifpatched in fearch of fifh for the refrefhment of the fick, but fhe returned withoutgetting any; but Tupia employed himfelf in angling, and living entirely on the*produce of his induftry, recovered his health very faft. Mr. Banks , in an excurfionmp the country, faw the frames of feverai Indian houfes, which appeared to have baenabandoned fome time: while the captain, having afcended one of the higheft hills,obferved the high land to be ftony and barren, and the low land near the river over-runwith mangroves, among which the fait water flowed every tide.

Gn Tuefday the captain ordered the fmith’s forge to be fet up, and directed thearmourer to prepare the neceflary iron work for the repair of the veflel. He likewifeordered out the officers ftores, water, &c. in order to lighten the fhip. This dayMr. Banks crofled the river to view the country, which was little elfe than fand-hills.He faw vaft flocks of crows and pigeons, of the latter of which he fhot feverai, whichwere moft beautiful birds. On the day following, as they were removing the coals,the water rallied in, near the foremaft, about three feet from the keel; fo that it wasrefolved to clear the hold entirely; wherefore they took out all the coals, and the nextday warped the fhip higher up the harbour, to a ftation proper for laying her a-fhore h 1order to flop the leak.

Early in the morning of the 22d the tide left the fhip, and they proceeded toexamine the leak, when they found that the rocks had cut through four planks intothe timbers, and that three other planks were damaged. In thefe breaches not afplinter was to be feen, the whole being fmooth, as if cut away by an inftrument; butthe prefervation of the veflel was owing to a very Angular circumftance. One of th eholes was large enough to have funk her, even with eight pumps conftantly at work >but this hole was in a great meafure flopped up by the fragment of the rock being te* 4flicking in it. They likewife found fome pieces of oakum, wool, &c. which had g otbetween the timbers, and flopped many parts of the leak which had been left open bythe flone. Exclufive of the leak, great damage was done to various parts of the fhip sbottom.

While the fmiths were engaged in making nails and bolts, the carpenters began towork on the veflel ; and fome of the crew were fent acrofs the river to fhoot pigeonsfor the fick. Thefe people found a ftream of frefh water, difcovered many Indianhoufes, and had fight of a moufe-coloured animal, extremely fwift, and about the fix e.of a greyhound. Qn the 23d they faw plenty of fifh, but patched pnly three. Tins