.A MOMENTOUS DECISION : DISCOVERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES 2J 
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No. 21. — M.uiN'ETic IsL.wi) (named Cook). Near Townsville, Queensland. 
tlth. We went for about 3 leagues among mangroves ; then we got into the 
•country, which ditl'ereil very little from what we had already seen. The river 
higher up contracted nuich, and lost most of its mangroves; the banks were steep 
and covered with trees of a beautiful verdure, particularly what is called in the 
West Indies mohoe or bark tree {Hihi-iru-i! tilinceus) 
lOth. .As the ship was now ready for her departure. Ur. Solander and I employed 
ourselves in winriing up our botanical bottoms (i.e., affairs), e.xamining what we 
wanted and making up our com[)lement of specitnens of as many species as 
possible 
24th. Wliile travelling in a deep valley, the sides of which were steep almost 
as a wall, but covered with trees and plenty of brushwood, we found marking-nuts 
(Anacnrdium orientale) lying on the ground 
28th. Botanising with no kind of succe.ss. the plants were now entirely completed, 
and nothing new to be found, so that sailing is all we wish for, if the wind would but 
allow us 
This long stay iii the Endeavour River was fully occupied by Banks 
and his scientific associates chietty in botanising, but also in the study 
