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deck ; 1 also got a spare anchor and anchor-stock 

 ashore, and the remaining part of the stores and 

 ballast that were in the hold : set up the smith's 

 forge, and employed the armourer and his mate to 

 make nails and other necessaries for the repair of 

 the ship. In the afternoon, all the officers* stores 

 and the ground tier of water were got out ; so that 

 nothing remained in the fore and main hold, but the 

 coals, and a small quantity of stone ballast. This 

 day Mr. Banks crossed the river to take a view of 

 the country on the other side : he found it consist 

 principally of sand hills, where he saw some Indian 

 houses, which appeared to have been very lately 

 inhabited. In this walk, he met with vast flocks of 

 pigeons and crows : of the pigeons, which were ex- 

 ceedingly beautiful, he shot several ; but the crows, 

 which were exactly like those in England, were so 

 shy that he could not get within reach of them. 



On the 20th, we landed the powder, and got out 

 the stone ballast and wood, which brought the ship's 

 draught of water to eight feet ten inches forward, and 

 thirteen feet abaft ; and this I thought, with the dif- 

 ference that would be made by trimming the coals aft, 

 would be sufficient ; for I found that the water rose 

 and fell perpendicularly eight feet at the spring- tides : 

 but as soon as the coals were trimmed from over 

 the leak, we could hear the water rush in a little 

 abaft the foremast, about three feet from the keel : 

 this determined me to clear the hold entirely. This 

 evening, Mr. Banks observed that in many parts of 

 the inlet there were large quantities of pumice stones, 

 which lay at a considerable distance above high- 

 water mark ; whither they might have been carried 

 either by the freshes or extraordinary high tides, 

 for there could be no doubt but that they came from 

 the sea. 



The next morning we went early to work, and by 

 four o'clock in the afternoon had got out all the 

 coals, cast the moorings loose, and warped the ship 



