210 SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL 
1819. where we might remain during the continuance 
June 27. of the bad weather, as well as repair our losses, 
and erect the boat that we had on board in frame, 
to replace the one we had lately lost , as 
Endeavour River would afford us the necessary 
convenience and shelter, it was determined that 
we should visit it, and as its distance from W eary 
Bay did not exceed ten leagues, there was every 
reason to expect that we should reach it early 
enough to enter before dark. At half past ten 
o’clock, we passed between the Hope Islands and 
the Reef, a. The course was then directed for 
the hills on the south side of the entrance of 
Endeavour River, the highest of which, a con- 
spicuous peaked hill, received the name of Mount 
Cook, in memorial of our celebrated navigator, 
who suffered so much distress and anxiety at this 
place. The bay south of it was that which he 
first examined for shelter, after his ship had been 
got off the rocks, but it was found to be shoal and 
unfit for his purpose*. It was then that Endea- 
vour River was discovered ; and there, as is well 
known, the ship was repaired sufficiently to enable 
her to proceed to Batavia. 
We arrived off the south head of Endeavour 
River early in the afternoon, and anchored close 
* Hawkesworth, vol. iii. p. 149. 
