Series 03: Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 (vol. 2) - No. 0352
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Going into the opning
it was still as calm as ever so no likely hood of any wind today indeed had wind sprung up we could only have searchd for another opening for we were so embayd by the reef that with the general trade wind it was impossible to get out, another opning was however seen ahead & the 1st Lieutenant went away in the small boat to examine it in the mean time we strugled hard with the flood sometimes gaining a little then holding only our own & at others loosing a little so that our situation was almost as bad as ever as the flood had not yet come to its strengh at 2 however the Lieutentant arrivd with news that the opening was very narrow in it was good anchorage & a passage quite in free from shoals the ships head was immediately put towards it & with the tide she towd fast so that by three we enterd & were hurried in by a stream almost like a mill race which kept us from even a fear of the sides tho it was not above 1/2 of mile in breadth by 4 we came to an anchor happy once more to encounter those shoals which but two days before we thought ourselves supreemly