Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0300
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[Page 300]
296 off Cape Tribulation
& there was every natural convenience that could be wishd for either laying the ship ashore or heaving her down this was too much to be beleivd by our most sanguine wishes we however hopd that the place might do for us if not so much as we had been told yet something to better our situation as yet but precarious having nothing but a lock of Wool between us & destruction
14. Very fresh Sea breeze a boat was sent ahead to shew us the way into the harbour, but by some mistake of signals we were obligd to come to an anchor again of the mouth of it without going in where it soon blew too fresh for us to Weigh; we now began to consider our good fortune had it blown as fresh the day before yesterday or before that we could never have got off but must inevitably have been dashd to peices on the rocks. The Captn & myself went ashore to view the Harbour & found it indeed beyond our most sanguine wishes it was the mouth of a river the entrance of which was to be sure narrow enough & shallow but when once in the ship might be moord afloat so near the shore that by a stage from her to it all her