1X4 C 0 0 K ’s VOYAGE. 
t nrtle, and frequently bringing in from two to three hundred 
weight of filh. 
On the firft of Auguft, the carpenter examined the pumps, 
and, to our great mortification, found them all in a Hate of 
decay, owing, as he faid, to the Taps having been left in the 
wood ; one of them was fo rotten as, when hoifted up, to 
drop to pieces, and the reft were little better ; fo that cur chief 
truft was now in the foundnefs of our veffel, which happily 
did not admit more than one inch of water in an hour. 
At fix o’cloik-in the morning of Friday the third, we made 
another unfuccefsful attempt to warp the Ihip out of the har- 
bour ; but at five o’clock in the morning of the 4th, our ef- 
forts had a better effedt, and about feven, we got once mere 
under fail, with a light air from the land, which foon died 
away, and was followed by the fea-breezes from S. E. by S. 
with which we flood off to fea E. by N. having the pinnace 
ahead, which was ordered to keep founding continually. The 
yawl had been fent to the turtle bank, to take up the net 
which had been left there ; but as the wind frelhened we got 
out before her. A little before noon we anchored in fifteen 
fathom water, w'ith a fandy bottom ; for I did not think it 
fafe to run in among the Ihoals, till I had well viewed them, 
at low-water, from the maft-head, which might determine 
me which way to fleer : for as yet I was in doubt whether I 
Ihould beat back to the fouthward, round all the Ihoals, orfeek 
a paffage to the eaftward or the northward, all which at pre- 
fent appeared equally difficult and dangerous. When we were 
at anchor the harbour from which we failed bore S. 70 W. 
diftant about five leagues ; the northermoft point of the main 
in fight, which I named Cape Bedford, and which lies in 
latitude 15 0 16' S., longitude 21 4 0 45' W., bore N. zo W. 
diftant three leagues and a half ; but to the N. E. of this cape 
we could fee land which had the appearance of two high 
iflands : the turtle banks bore eaft, diftant one mile : our la- 
titude by obfervation was 15 0 32' S. and our depth of water in 
Handing off from the land was from three and an half to fifteen 
fathom. 
CHAP. VII. 
Departure from Endeavour River ; a particular Defer iptidh of the 
Harlour there , in which the Ship was refitted , the adjacent 
Country, and feveral Iflands near the Coafi : the Range from 
. Endeavour River to the northern Extremity of the Country, and 
the Dangers of that Navigation. 
T O the harbour which we new had left, I gave the name 
^of Endeayovr River, It is pnly a Imall bar har- 
bour. 
