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CHAP. VI. 
* Tranfaliians 'while the Ship 'was refitting in Endeavour River: 
A DeJcription of the adjacent Country, its Inhabitants and 
Productions. 
I N the morning of Monday the 1 8 , a fiage was made from 
the Hi ip to the Ihore, which was fo bold that (he floated at 
twenty feet diftance : two tents were alfo fet up, one for the 
fick, and the other for Acres and provifions, whici were land- 
ed in the courfe of the day. We alfo landed all the empty 
water calks, and part of the ftores. As foon as the tent for the 
flek was got ready for their reception, they were fent alhore to 
the number of eight or nine, and the boat was difpatched to 
haul the feine, in hopes of procuring fome fillr for their re- 
frefhment; but (he returned without fuccefs. In the mean 
time, : climbed one of the hrighelc hills among thole that over- 
looked the harbour, which afforded by no means a comfortable 
pro fp eel : theJow land near the river is wholly over-run with 
mangroves, among which the fait water flows every tide j and 
the high land appeared to be every where .i-oney and barren. 
In the mean time Mr. Banks had alfo taken a walk up rhe 
country, and met w: h the frames cf fevera! old Indian uou.es, 
and places where they had dreffed Ihell-filh ; but they ; smed 
not to have been frequented for fome months. T n r .a, who 
had employed himfelf in angling, and lived in nrely upon what 
he caught, recovered in a furp riling degree ; but Mr. Green, 
ftill continued to be extremely ill. 
The next morning I got the four remaining guns out of the 
hold, and mounted them upon the quarter-deck j I alfo got a 
fpare anchor, and anchor flock alhere, and the remaining part 
of the flores and ballaft that were in the h. id : fet up the 
.fmith’s.forge, and employed the armourer ana his mate to make 
nails and other neceflarics for the repair cf me fhip. In the 
afternoon, all the officers ftores and the ground tier of water 
were got out ; fo that nothing remained in the fere and main 
hold, but the coals, and a I 'm J1 quantity of ftone ballaft. 
This day Mr. Banks crofted the river, to take a view of the 
country on the other fide : he found it confilt principally of 
fand-hills, where he faw fome Indian houfes, which appeared 
to have been very lately inhabited. In his walk, he met with 
vaft flocks of pigeons and crows : of the pigeons, which were 
exceedingly beautiful, he (hot feverai : but the crows, which 
were exaftly like thofe in England, were lo Ihy that he could 
Ctot get within reach of them. 
