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spite of all the efforts of the crew, the boats soon drifted 
out of sight. The yawl came back at two in the morning 
with the news that the other two boats were lost. We 
were, however, glad to find the men safe, for they had been 
in considerable danger. 
20th. The yawl was sent ashore to seek assistance in 
recovering our long-boat: it returned with our pinnace and 
its crew, and a boat of the Viceroy, which had orders to 
assist us in searching for our boats. 
The crew of the pinnace declared that they had been 
confined in a loathsome dungeon, where their company was 
chiefly blacks who were chained. The coxswain purchased 
a better apartment for seven petacks (about as many 
English shillings). At dark the pinnace returned with both 
the boats and all their contents. 
21st. Letters arrived from the Viceroy ; in mine he told 
me very politely that it was not in his power to permit me 
to go ashore. In the captain’s he raises some doubts about 
our ship being a King’s ship. 
23rd. An answer to the captain’s last memorial accuses 
him of smuggling. 
24th. Dr. Solander went into the town as surgeon of the 
ship to visit a friar who had desired that the surgeon might 
be sent to him: he received civilities from the people. 
26th. I myself went ashore this morning before day- 
break, and stayed until dark night. While I was ashore I 
met several of the inhabitants, who were very civil to me, 
taking me to their houses, where I bought of them stock for 
the ship tolerably cheap: a middlingly fat porker for eleven 
shillings, a Muscovy duck for something under two shil- 
lings, ete. 
The country, where I saw it, abounded with vast variety 
of plants and animals, mostly such as had not been described 
by our naturalists, as so few have had an opportunity of 
coming here; indeed, no one even tolerably curious that I 
1 “The build and general appearance of the Endeavour not being that of 
a man-of-war, the Portuguese authorities entertained suspicions regarding her 
true character, which is not altogether surprising, considering the times,” — 
Wharton’s Cook, p. 22, footnote. 
