Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF BANKS AND SOLANDER
- NATURALISTS AND VOYAGERS MENTIONED IN THE JOURNAL
- LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE “ENDEAVOUR” AND BANKS'S STAFF
- CHAPTER I ENGLAND TO RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER II RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER III RIO TO TERRA DEL FUEGO
- CHAPTER IV TERRA DEL FUEGO TO OTAHITE
- CHAPTER V OTAHITE
- CHAPTER VI OTAHITE TO OHETEROA
- CHAPTER VII GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
- CHAPTER VIII SOUTH SEA ISLANDS TO NEW ZEALAND (THAMES RIVER)
- CHAPTER IX CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTER X GENERAL ACCOUNT OF NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTER XI NEW ZEALAND TO AUSTRALIA (ENDEAVOUR RIVER)
- CHAPTER XII AUSTRALIA (ENDEAVOUR RIVER) TO TORRES STRAITS
- CHAPTER XIII SOME ACCOUNT OF THAT PART OF NEW HOLLAND NOW CALLED NEW SOUTH WALES
- CHAPTER XIV AUSTRALIA TO SAVU ISLAND
- CHAPTER XV DESCRIPTION OF SAVU
- CHAPTER XVI SAVU ISLAND TO BATAVIA
- CHAPTER XVII DESCRIPTION OF BATAVIA
- CHAPTER XVIII BATAVIA TO CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
- CHAPTER XIX CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO ENGLAND
- APPENDIX: ELECTRICITY
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER XII - AUSTRALIA (ENDEAVOUR RIVER) TO TORRES STRAITS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF BANKS AND SOLANDER
- NATURALISTS AND VOYAGERS MENTIONED IN THE JOURNAL
- LIST OF OFFICERS OF THE “ENDEAVOUR” AND BANKS'S STAFF
- CHAPTER I ENGLAND TO RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER II RIO DE JANEIRO
- CHAPTER III RIO TO TERRA DEL FUEGO
- CHAPTER IV TERRA DEL FUEGO TO OTAHITE
- CHAPTER V OTAHITE
- CHAPTER VI OTAHITE TO OHETEROA
- CHAPTER VII GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS
- CHAPTER VIII SOUTH SEA ISLANDS TO NEW ZEALAND (THAMES RIVER)
- CHAPTER IX CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTER X GENERAL ACCOUNT OF NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTER XI NEW ZEALAND TO AUSTRALIA (ENDEAVOUR RIVER)
- CHAPTER XII AUSTRALIA (ENDEAVOUR RIVER) TO TORRES STRAITS
- CHAPTER XIII SOME ACCOUNT OF THAT PART OF NEW HOLLAND NOW CALLED NEW SOUTH WALES
- CHAPTER XIV AUSTRALIA TO SAVU ISLAND
- CHAPTER XV DESCRIPTION OF SAVU
- CHAPTER XVI SAVU ISLAND TO BATAVIA
- CHAPTER XVII DESCRIPTION OF BATAVIA
- CHAPTER XVIII BATAVIA TO CAPE OF GOOD HOPE
- CHAPTER XIX CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO ENGLAND
- APPENDIX: ELECTRICITY
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
June 20th. Observed that in many parts of the inlet, a good way above the high-water mark, were large quantities of pumice-stones probably carried there by freshes or extra-ordinarily high tides, as they certainly came from the sea. Before night the ship was lightened, and we observed with great pleasure that the springs, which were now beginning to lift, rose as high as we could wish.
21st. Fine clear weather; began to-day to lay plants in sand. By night the ship was quite clear, and in the night's tide (which we had constantly observed to be much higher than the day's) we hauled her ashore.
22nd. In the morning I saw her leak, which was very large: in the middle was a hole large enough to have sunk a ship with twice our pumps, but here Providence had most visibly worked in our favour, for it was in a great measure plugged up by a stone as big as a man's fist. Round the edges of this stone had all the water come in, nearly overcome us, and here we found the wool and oakum, or fothering, which had relieved us in so unexpected a manner.
The effect of this coral rock upon her bottom is difficult to describe, but more to believe; it had cut through her plank and deep into one of her timbers, smoothing the gashes still before it, so that the whole might easily be imagined to have been cut with an axe.
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- Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks Bart., K.B., P.R.S.During Captain Cook's First Voyage in HMS Endeavour in 1768–71 to Terra del Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, etc., pp. 281 - 295Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1896