Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0279
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May 1770 Thirsty sound
for a shoal on which the ship came too but before the anchor went she had less than 3 fathm water; the boats now sounded all round her & found that she was upon the shoalest part on which the anchor was got up & we stood on weather was hazey at night anchord.
29. Early this morn we got up our anchor & stood in for an opening in which by nine O'Clock we came to an anchor, we saw in coming in no signs of People after breakfast we went ashore & found several Plants which we had not before seen among them were however still more East Indian plants than in the last harbour, one kind of Grass which we had also seen in the last bay there was very troublesome to us its sharp seeds were bearded backwards & whenever they stuck into our cloths were by these beards pushd forward till they got into the flesh this grass was so plentifull that it was hardly possible to avoid it & with the Musketos that were likewise innumerable made walking almost intolerable we were not however to be repulsd but proceeded into the countrey. the gum