On the 13th, at fix o'clock, we failed, having previously fent the boat a-head to point out the fhoals that we saw in our way. We foon anchored about a mile from the fhore, when the captain went out, and found the channel very narrow, but the harbour better adapted to our prefent purpose, than any place we had seen in the course of the voyage. As it blew very fresh this day, we could not venture to run into the harbour, but remained at anchor the two fucceeding days, in the course of which we obferved four Indians on the hills, who stopped and made three fires.

Our men by this time, began to be afflicted with the fcurvy; and our Indian friend, Tupia, was fo ill with it, that he had livid spots on both legs. The wind continued fresh till the 17th, and then we refolved to push in for the harbour, and twice ran the fhip aground; the fecond time fhe ftuck faft, on which we took down the booms, fore-yard, and fore-top mafts, and made a raft on the fide of the fhip; and as the tide happened to be rising, she floated at one o'clock. We foon got her into the harbour, where the was moored along the fide of a beach, and the anchors, cables, &c. immedi ately taken out of her.

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N the 18 in the morning, we erected a tent for the fick, who were brought on fhore as foon as it was ready for their reception. We likewise built a ftage from the fhip to the fhore, and fet up a tent to hold the provifions and ftores, that were landed the fame day. The boat was now difpatched in fearch of

fish for the refreshment of the fick, but the returned without getting any; but Tupia employed himself in angling, and lived entirely upon what he caught, and recovered his health very fast.

On the 19th, the fmith's forge was fet up, and the armourer prepared the neceffary iron-work for the repairs of the veffel. The officer's flores, ballaft, water, &c. were likewife ordered out, in order to lighten the fhip. On the 20th, as we were removing the coals, the water rushed in, near the foremaft, about three feet from the keel, fo that it was refolved to clear the hold entirely; which being done on the 22d, we warped the fhip higher up the harbour, to a flation more proper for laying her afhore, in order to ftop the leak.

Early in the morning, the tide having left her, we proceeded to examine the leak, when it appeared that the rocks had cut through four planks into the timbers, and that three other planks were damaged. In these breaches not a splinter was to be seen, the whole being fmooth as if cut away by an inftrument: but it was the will of an Omnipotent Being, that the veffel fhould be preserved by a very fingular circumftance: for though one of the holes was large enough to have funk her, even with eight pumps conftantly at work, yet this inlet to our deftruction was partly flopped up, by at fragment of the rock being left fticking therein. We likewife found fome pieces of the oakham, wood, &c. had got between the timbers and flopped thofe parts of the leak that the stone had left open. Exclufive of the leak, great damage was done to various parts of the ship's bottom. While the fmiths were employed in making nails and bolts, the carpenters began to work on the veffel; and fome of the people were fent on the other fide of the river to fhoot birds for the fick. They found a ftream of fresh water, and feveral of the inhabitants of the Indians.

On the 24th Mr. Gore and a party of men fent out with him, procured a bunch or two of wild plantains,

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and a few palm cabbages, for the refreshment of the fick the repairs of the fhip on the ftarboard fide having been finished the preceding day, the carpenters now began to work under her larboard bow; and being examined abaft, it appeared fhe had received very little injury in that quarter. On the 26th the carpenter was engaged in caulking the fhip, and the men in other necellary bufinefs; and on the 27th, the armourer continued to work at the forge, and the carpenter on the fhip, while the captain made feveral hauls with the large net, and caught fuch a quantity, that two pounds and a half were diftributed to each man; and plenty of greens had been gathered, which, when boiled with peas, made an excellent mefs.

On the ift of July, all the crew had permiffion to go on fhore, except one from each mefs. Some of our people who went up the country, gave an account of their having feen feveral animals, and a fire about a mile up the river. On the 3d, the mafter, who had been fent in the pinnace, returned, and reported, that he had found a passage out at fea, between fhoals which confifted of coral rocks, many whereof were dry at low

water.

He found cockles fo large, that one of them was more than fufficient for two men ; likewife plenty of other fhell-fish, of which he brought a fupply to the fhip, in his return to which he had landed in a bay where fome Indians were at fupper; but they inftantly retired, leaving fome eggs by a fire for dreffing them. This day we made another attempt to float the fhip, and happily fucceeded at high water; when we found, that by the pofition fhe had lain in, one of her planks was fprung, fo that it was again neceffary to lay her afhore An Alligator fwam by her feveral times at high water.

Wednesday the 4th, was imployed in trimming her upon an even keel, warping her over, and laying her down on a fand-bank, on the fouth fide of the river;

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2nd on the next fhe was again floated, and moored off the beach, in order to receive the flores on board. This day, the 6th, Mr. Banks failed up the river, to. make an excursion up the country, returned on the 8th. Having followed the courfe of the river, they found it at length contracted into a narrow channel, bounded by fleep banks, adorned with trees of a most beautiful appearance, among which was the bark tree. The land was low and covered with grafs, and feemed capable of being cultivated to great perfection.

Going in purfuit of game, we faw four animals, two of which were chafed by Mr. Banks's greyhound, but they greatly outftripped him in fpeed, by leeping over the long thick grafs, which incommoded the dog in running. It was observed of the animals that they bounded forward on two legs, inftead of running on four. Having returned to the boat, they proceeded up the river, till it contracted to a brook of fresh water, but in which the tide rofe confiderably. Having flopped to pass the night, we faw at fome diftance a fmoke, on which three of us approached it, but the Indians were gone. The tide favouring us in the morning, we loft no time in getting back to the ship.

The next day the fecond lieutenant came on fhore, and foon after faw four Indians, in a fmall canoe. The Captain now determined to take notice of thefe people, as the moft likely way to be noticed by them. This project anfwered, two of them came within mufket fhot of the veffel, where they converfed very loud; in return, the people on board fhouted, and made figns of invitation. The Indians gradually approached, with their lances held up; not in a menacing manner, but as if they meant to intimate that they were capable of defending them felves. They came almoft along fide, when the captain threw them cloth, nails, paper, &c. which did not feem to attract their notice: at length one of the failors threw a fmall fifh, which fo pleafed them, that they hinted their defigns of bringing their companions,

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companions, and immediately rowed for inore. In the interim, Tupia, and fome of the crew landed on the oppofite fhore.

The four Indians now came quite along fide the ship, and having received farther prefents, landed where Tupia and the failors had gone. They had each two lances, and a flick with which they threw them. Advancing towards the English, Tupia persuaded them to lay down their arms, and fit by him, which they readily did. Others of the crew now going on hore, the Indians feemed jealous, left they should get between them and their arms, but care was taken to convince them that no fuch things was intended, and more trifles were prefented them. The crew ftaid with them till dinner time, and then made figns of invitations for them to go to the fhip and eat : but this they declined, and retired in their canoe.

These men were of the common ftature, with very fmall limbs: their complexion was of a deep chocolate, their hair black, either lank or curled, but not of the woolly kind; the breafts and upper lip of one of them were painted with ftreaks of white, which he called carbanda, and fome of their bodies painted red. Their teeth were white and even, their eyes bright, and their features rather pleafing; their voices mufical, and they repeated feveral English words with great readinefs.

The next morning the vifit of three of thefe Indians was renewed, and they brought with them a fourth, whom they called Yaparico, who' appeared to be a perfon of fome confequence. The bone of a bird, about fix inches long, was thrust through his nofe. These people being all naked, and the captain gave one of them an old fhirt, which he bound round his head like a turban. They brought a fish to the fhip, which was fuppofed to be in payment for that given them the day before after ftaying fome time with apparent fatisfaction, they fuddenly leaped into their canoe and rowed

off,