Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0309
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July 1770 Endeavours River
31. The second lieutenant saw 2 animals like dogs but smaller they ran like hares & were of a straw colour. Sein caught 213 lb of Fish
[Margin note] July
1. Being Sunday all hands were ashore on liberty many animals were seen by them. the Indians had a fire about a league off up the river. or second Lieutenant found the husk of a Cocoa nut full of Barnacles cast up on the Beach, probably it had come from some Island to windward From New Jerusalem the Terra del Espirito Santo possibly as we are now in its latitude.
The ship was now finishd & tomorrow being the highest spring tide it was intended to haul her off so we began to think how we should get out of this place where so lately to get only in was our utmost ambition we had observ'd in coming in innumerable shoals & sands all round us so we went upon a high hill to see what passage to the sea might be open when we came there the Prospect was indeed melancholy the sea every where full of innumerable shoals some above & some under water & no prospect of any streight passage out to return as we came was impossible the trade wind blew directly in our teeth most dangerous then our navigation must be among unknown dangers how soon we might we again be