This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...directed for the hills on the south side of the entrance of Endeavour River, the highest of which, a conspicuous peaked hill, received the name of Mount Cook, in memorial of our celebrated navigator, who suffered so much distress and anxiety at this place. The bay south of it was that which he first examined for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...directed for the hills on the south side of the entrance of Endeavour River, the highest of which, a conspicuous peaked hill, received the name of Mount Cook, in memorial of our celebrated navigator, who suffered so much distress and anxiety at this place. The bay south of it was that which he first examined for shelter, after his ship had been got off the rocks, but it was found to be shoal and unfit for his purpose. It was then that Endeavour River was discovered; and there, as is well known, the ship was repaired sufliciently to enable her to proceed to Batavia. We arrived off the south head of Endeavour River early in the aftemoon, and anchored close to it in three fathoms, with the outer point bearing S.E. The wind was too fresh to examine the bar until the evening, and it was then too late to enter; but early the next morning the cutter was warped in, in doing which she grounded on the north side of the bar in eight feet. As the water was quite smooth, this little delay occasioned no damage, and by twelve o'clock she was secured to the shore, within ten feet of a steep beach on the south side of the entrance; in all probability the very same spot that Captain Cook landed his stores upon forty-nine years ago. I819. June 28. CHAPTER VI. Tmusscrrons at Endeavour River, and intercourse with the Natives: --Examine the River: --Geognostical Remarks: --Leave Endeavour River, and resume the examination of the coast: -Anchor among Howick's Group. and under Flinders's Group: --Explore Princess Charlotte's Bay, and the Islands and Reefs as far as Cape York, anchoring in the way on various parts-of the coast: --The cutter nearly wrecked at Escape River-: -5 Loss of anchor under-Turtle Island: --Pass round Cape York and through Torres Strait, by the Inves
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