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CHAP. IV. 



TRANSACTIONS WHILE THE SHIP WAS REFITTING IN EN- 

 DEAVOUR RIVER ; A DESCRIPTION OF THE ADJACENT 

 COUNTRY, ITS INHABITANTS, AND PRODUCTIONS. 



In the morning of Monday the 18th, a stage was 

 made from the ship to the shore, which was so bold 

 that she floated at twenty feet distance : two tents 

 were also set up, one for the sick, and the other for 

 stores and provisions, which were landed in the 

 course of the day. We also landed all the empty 

 water-casks, and part of the stores. As soon as the 

 tent for the sick was got ready for their reception, 

 they were sent ashore to the number of eight or nine, 

 and the boat was dispatched to haul the seine, in 

 hopes of procuring some fish for their refreshment % 

 but she returned without success. In the mean 

 time, I climbed one of the highest hills among those 

 that overlooked the harbour, which afforded by no 

 means a comfortable prospect : the low land near 

 the river is wholly over-run with mangroves, among 

 which the salt-water flows every tide ; and the high 

 land appeared to be every where stony and barren. 

 In the mean time Mr. Banks had also taken a walk 

 up the country, and met with the frames of several 

 old Indian houses, and places where they had dress- 

 ed shell-fish ; but they seemed not to have been fre- 

 quented for some months. Tupia, who had employ- 

 ed himself in angling, and lived entirely upon what 

 he caught, recovered in a surprising degree ; but 

 Mr. Green still continued to be extremely ill. 



The next morning I got the four remaining guns 

 out of the hold, and mounted them upon the quarter- 



