Mr. Banks travels up the Country. ioi 
On the qth, I got one of the carpenter’s crew, a man in 
Whom I could confide, to go down again to the Ihip’s bottoni, 
and examine the place. He reported, that three ftreaks of 
the lheathing, about eight, feet long, were wanting, and that 
the main plank had been^a little rubbed ; this account per- 
fectly agreed with the report of the mailer, and others, who 
had been under her bottom before : 1 had the comfort how- 
ever to find the carpenter of opinion that this would be of little 
conlequence, and therefore, the other damlge being repaired, 
fhe was again floated at high water, and moored along-fide 
the beach, where the ftores had been depofited ; we then went 
to work to take the llores on board, and put her in a condi- 
tion for the fea. This day, Mr. Banks crofledto the other fide of 
the harbour, where, as he walked along a fandy beach, he 
found innumerable fruits, and many of them fuch as no plants 
which he had difcovered in this country produced : among 
' others were fome cocoa nuts, which Tupia faid had been open- 
ed by a kind of crab, which from his defcription we judged to 
be the fame that the Dutch call Beurs Krai be, and which we 
had not feen in thefe feas. All the vegetable fubllances which 
he found in this place, were eneruited with marine productions, 
and covered with barnacles ; a fure fign that they mull have 
come far by fea, and, as the trade-wind blows right upon the 
flhore, probably from Terra del Efpirito Santo, which has 
been mentioned already. 
The next morning, Mr. Banks, with Lieutenant Gore, and 
• three men fet out in a fmall boat up the river, with a view to 
Ipend two or three days in an excurfion, to examine the couni 
try, and kill fome of the animals which had been fo often 
feen at a diftance. 
On the 7th, I fent the mailer again out to found about the 
fhoals, the account whicn he had brought me of a channel 
being by no means fatisfaclory ; and we fpent the remainder 
of this day, and the morning of the next, in fifhing, and other 
neceflary occupations. 
About four o’clock in the afternoon, Mr. Banks and his par- 
ty returned, and gave us an account of tin ir expedition. 
Having proceeded about three leagues among ihe fwamps and 
mangroves, they went up into the country, which they found 
to differ but little from what they had feen before : they pur- 
fued their courfe therefore up the river, which at length, 
was contraCled into a narrow channel, and was bounded, 
not by fwamps and mangroves, but by lleep banks, that 
were covered with trees of a mod beautiful verdure, a- ■ 
mong which was that which in the Well Indies is calledf 
Moboe, or the bark tree, the hibifcus tiliaceur, the land with- 
in was in general low, and had a thick covering of long 
grafs: the foil feemed to be fuch as promifed great fertility, 
to any who fhould plant and improve it. In the courfe of 
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