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had the satisfaction to see all the people come on 

 board in the yawl. From them we learnt, that the 

 long-boat having filled with water they had brought 

 her to a grappling, and left her ; and that, having 

 fallen in with the reef of rocks in their return to the 

 ship, they had been obliged to cut Mr. Banks's little 

 boat adrift. As the loss of our long-boat, which we 

 had now too much reason to apprehend, would have 

 been an unspeakable disadvantage to us, considering 

 the nature of our expedition, I sent another letter to 

 the Viceroy, as soon as I thought he could be seen, 

 acquainting him with our misfortune, and requesting 

 the assistance of a boat from the shore for the reco- 

 very of our own ; I also renewed my demand that 

 the pinnace and her crew should be no longer de- 

 tained : after some delay, His Excellency thought fit 

 to comply both with my request and demand ; and 

 the same day we happily recovered both the long- 

 boat and skiff, with the rum, but every thing else that 

 was on board was lost. On the 23d, the Viceroy, in 

 his answer to my remonstrance against seizing my 

 men and detaining the boat, acknowledged that I had 

 been treated with some incivility, but said that the 

 resistance of my officers to what he had declared to 

 be the King's orders made it absolutely necessary ; 

 he also expressed some doubs whether the Endeavour, 

 considering her structure and other circumstances, 

 was in the service of His Majesty, though I had before 

 showed him my commission : to this I answered in 

 writing, that, to remove all scruples, I w^as ready to 

 produce my commission again. His Excellency's 

 scruples, however, still remained, and in his reply to 

 my letter he not only expressed them in still plainer 

 terms, but accused my people of smuggling. This 

 charge, I am confident, was without the least found- 

 ation in truth. Mr. Banks's servants had indeed 

 found means to go on shore on the 22d at day-break, 

 and stay till it was dark in the evening, but they 

 brought on board only plants and insects, having been 



