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place from which we had just floated her. I was 

 now very desirous to make another trial to come 

 at her bottom, where the sheathing had been rub- 

 bed off, but though she had scarcely four feet water 

 under her, when the tide was out, yet that part was 

 not dry. 



On the 5th, I got one of the carpenter's crew, a 

 man in whom I could confide, to go down again to 

 the ship's bottom, and examine the place. He re- 

 ported, that three streaks of the sheathing, about 

 eight feet long, were wanting, and that the main plank 

 had been a little rubbed ; this account perfectly 

 agreed with the report of the master, and others, 

 who had been under her bottom before : I had the 

 comfort however to find the carpenter of opinion 

 that this would be of little consequence, and there- 

 fore the other damage being repaired, she was again 

 floated at high water, and moored along-side the 

 beach, where the stores had been deposited ; we 

 then went to work to take the stores on board, and 

 put her in a condition for the sea. This day, Mr. 

 Banks crossed to the other side of the harbour, 

 where, as he walked along a sandy beach, he found 

 innumerable fruits, and many of them, such as no 

 plants which he had discovered in this country pro- 

 duced : among others were some cocoa nuts, which 

 Tupia said had been opened by a kind of crab, which 

 from his description we judged to be the same that 

 the Dutch call Bears Krabbe, and which we had not 

 seen in these seas. All the vegetable substances 

 which he found in this place, were encrusted with 

 marine productions, and covered with barnacles ; a 

 sure sign that they must have come far by sea, and, 

 as the trade-wind blows right upon the shore, pro- 

 bably from Terra del Espirito Santo, which has been 

 mentioned already. 



The next morning, Mr. Banks, with lieutenant 

 Gore, and three men, set out in a small boat up the 

 river, with a view to spend two or three days in an 



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