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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

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