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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.

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