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SIR JOSEPH BAyKS. 
14th June. The captain (Cook) and I went ashore to view a harbour .to beach 
the *• Endeavour ” in, and found it indeed beyond our most sanguine wishes. 
It was the mouth of a river (called Endeavour River, after the name of ihe ship). 
17th June. In the meantime Dr. Solander and I began our plant gathering. 
The dangerous accident which had happened to the “ Endeavour ” 
was a blessing in disguise to Banks, as the time the ship was laid up 
enabled him to collect and make observations, for near the Endeavour 
River he stayed longer than at any other place in Austraha.* 
No. 18. — Point Danger (named by Cook), just north of Tweed Heads. 
21st June. Began to-day to lay plants in sand (to dry them for herbarium 
purposes). 
22nd June. Myself employed all day in laying in plants. 
Some of the people “ saw an animal as large as a grejdiound, of a mouse colour, 
and very swift.” 
24th. Gathering plants and hearing descriptions of the animal, wliich is now 
seen by everybody. 
• ('aptain Cook Cairn — an interesting discovery. — A Cooktown telegram states that for many 
years a rough stone cairn ha.s been known to exist on an almost inaccessible summit of Mount 
Saunders, situated on the north-west side of the bay. Last Sunday Messrs. H. Trelyar and E. 
Seagreen climbed the peak and found the cairn, which was 4 feet high, with room in the centre 
for a flagstaff. The stones were charred black, evidently due to hush fires. The visitors over- 
tiuned one stone 20 inches long by 7 inches thick, and found on the bottom side the word " Cook,” 
plainly visible, the letters having been cut into the stone with a chisel. Underneath the word 
" Cook ” was a heart-shaped device, which, however, was almost obliterated . — (Sydney Morning 
Herald, 21st September, 1904.) 
