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of zoology by gun and seine. At one time the camp was in danger, 
because of their refusal to give the blacks a turtle they had caught. 
The blacks thereupon fired the long grass, and the ship’s property 
and the specimens were only saved by using the most active 
measures.* 
10th August. Sailed out of the Endeavour River. 
The point we went on (Cape Flattery) was .sandy and very barren, so it afforded 
very few plants or anything else worth observation We had the 
satisfaction, however, to see that what was taken for land round us proved only 
a number of islands. 
11th. The captain went to-day to one of the islands (Lizard Island), which 
proved to be 5 leagues from the ship.| 
No. 22. — View of the Endeavour River, with the “ Endeavour ” beached. 
(Hawkesworth's “ Voyages.”) 
T2th. Searching the island. On it I found some few plants which I had not 
before seen. The island itself was small and barren ; there was. however, one 
small tract of woodland which abounded very much with large lizards, some of 
which I took. 
On our return we went ashore on a low island (Eagle Island), 
where we shot many birds ; on it was the nest of an eagle, the young ones of which 
we killed. 
13th. Ship stood out for the opening (Cook’s Passage) we had seen in the 
reef, and about two o'clock passed through it ; it was about half a mile wide. 
14th. For the first time these three months we were out of sight of land, to our 
no small satisfaction. A reef such as we have just passed is a thing scarcely knovm 
in Europe, or indeed anywhere but in these seas. 
16th. They re-entered the Barrier Reef. 
• For other accounts of Banks at the Endeavour River, see Hist. Rec., V.S. (I). 142 (Cook's 
Log); 206 (Gunner Forwood's Journal); 225 (Pickersgill's .lourual) ; 249 (Wilkinson’s Journal); 
263 (Bootie’s Journal) ; 283 (.Anonymous Journal). 
t For notes on Banks at Lizard Island, see Hist. Rec., N.S.W., i, (I), 169. 208. 
