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ENDEAVOUR RIVER. 



Arms - - - pankal. Coloured pig- 

 Hair - - - kiaram. mentonbody markum. 

 Foot - - - pinkao. Water - - - kamo. 

 Ears - - - aspiniiR. Fire - - - wampoe. 



June 2, 3. — We were sailing along shore to the 

 northward, with beautiful weather. The coast con- 

 sisted of bold ranges of rocky hills of various and 

 picturesque outlines, rising to a height of two and 

 three thousand feet, and even more. 



June 4b — This morning we hove to off the mouth 

 of Endeavour River, and I accompanied Captain 

 Blackwood to look at a spot that was to us classic 

 ground, and the name of which, as the spot where 

 Cook careened and repaired his vessel, was associated 

 with my earliest boyish recollections of books of 

 voyages and travels. Its external aspect is bare and 

 barren — rocky hills of moderate height, with their 

 seaward slopes, almost utterly destitute of vegetation. 

 Inside, the inlet expands a little. The north shore 

 is formed of a low line of sand dunes beneath the 

 higher hills. On the south shore a hill of moderate 

 elevation, tolerably clothed with small gum-trees, 

 slopes down on to a small grassy flat, fronted by a 

 line of mangroves, which gradually increase in 

 width and density as they stretch up the inlet. 

 Beyond these the land is low for some miles, and is 

 backed by some tabular fiat-topped hills, a few hun- 

 dred feet high, of a different aspect to those usual 

 on the coast. We found the steep beach marked 

 A in Cook's chart still pretty open, but the spot 



