15- L I E U T E N A N T CO OK ’S VOY A GE
17-74- niftcred. Mr. Green, our aftronomer, was alfo declining ;
. Ju"g' ■ and thefe, among other circumftances, imbittered the delay
Saturday §§> prevented our going afhore.
Sunday 17. In the morning of the 17th, though the wind was fiill
frefh, we ventured to weigh, and pufli in for the harbour 5
but in doing this we twice run the fhip aground: the firft
time fhe went off without any trouble, but the fecond time
Ihe ftuck faft. We now got down the fore yard, fore top-
mafts, and booms, and taking them overboard, made a raft
of them alongfide of the Ihip. The tide was happily rifing,
and about one o’clock in the afternoon, Ihe floated. We foon
warped her into the harbour, and having moored her alongfide
of a fteep beach to the ibuth, we got the anchors, cables,
and all the hawfers on Ihore before night.
C H A P .
