Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0295
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June 1770 Endeavours Rocks
food, on a countrey where we had not the least reason to hope for subsistance had they even every convenence to take it as netts &c. so barren had we always found it. & had they even met with good usage from the natives & food to support them debarrd from a hope of ever again seing their native countrey or conversing with any but the most uncivilizd savages perhaps in the world
the dreadfull time now aproachd & the anziety in every bodys countenance was visible enough the Capstan & Windlace were mannd & they began to heave fear of Death now stard us in the face; hopes we had none but of being able to keep the ship afloat till we could run her ashore on some part of the main where out of her materials we might build a vessel large enough to carry us to the East Indies. at 10 O'Clock she floated & was in a few minutes hawld into deep water where to our great satisfaction she made no more water than she had done which was indeed full as much as we could manage tho no one there was in the ship but who willingly exerted his utmost strengh.