d, and on the carpenter's report, Cook
applied to the Governor for a convenient place in which to heave down and
repair, and for permission to purchase such stores as might be necessary.
Every assistance was promised, and on Cook's finding a difficulty in
getting any private person to cash the bills he would have to draw for
his expenses, the Governor ordered the officer in charge of the port to
supply whatever amount might be necessary.

During a heavy thunderstorm on the 12th, a Dutch East Indiaman, about two
cables away from the Endeavour, had mainmast "split all to shivers." The
Endeavour was also struck:

"and in all probability we should have shared the same fate as the
Dutchman, had it not been for the electric chain which we had but just
before got up; this carried the Lightning or Electrical matter over the
side clear of the ship."

On 25th October Cook reopened communication with the Admiralty,
forwarding to Mr. Stephens, by the Dutch East Indiaman Kronenberg,
Captain F. Kelgar, a packet containing a copy of his Journal (sold to Mr.
John Corner in 1890), charts of the South Seas, New Zealand, and the East
Coast of Australia. He also wrote a letter giving an outline of his
voyage up to date, and concludes:

"In this Journal, I have with undisguised Truth and without gloss,
inserted the whole transactions of the Voyage, and made such remarks and
have given such descriptions of things as I thought was necessary, in the
best manner I was capable of. Although the discoverys made in the Voyage
are not great, yet I flatter myself they are such as may merit the
Attention of their Lordships, and altho' I have failed in discovering the
so much talked of Southern Continent (which perhaps do not exist), and
which I myself had much at heart, yet I am confident that no part of the
failure of such discovery can be laid to my charge. Had we been so
fortunate not to have run ashore, much more would have been done in the
latter part of the Voyage than what was, but as it is, I presume this
Voyage will be found as compleat as any before made to the South Seas on
the same account.

PRAISES HIS CREW.

"The plans I have drawn of the places I have been at, were made with all
the care and accuracy that Time and Circumstances would admit of. Thus
far I am certain that the Latitude and Longitude of few parts of the
World are better settled than these, in this I was very much assisted by
Mr. Green, who let slip no one opportunity