To this singular event, therefore, it was owing, that the water did not pour in with a violence, which must speedily have involved the Endeavour and all her company in inevitable destruction.
Hitherto none of the names, by which our commander had distinguished the several parts of the country seen by him, were memorials of distress.

But the anxiety and danger, which he and his people had now experienced, induced him to call the point in sight, which lay to the northward, Cape Tribulation.
The next object, after this event, was to look out for a harbour, where the defects of the ship might be repaired, and the vessel put into proper order for future navigation.

On the 14th, a small harbour was happily discovered, which was excellently adapted to the purpose.
It was, indeed, remarkable, that, during the whole course of the voyage, our people had seen no place which, in their present circumstances, could have afforded them the same relief.

They could not, however, immediately get into it; and in the midst of all their joy for their unexpected deliverance, they had not forgotten that there was nothing but a lock of wool between them and destruction.
At this time, the scurvy, with many formidable symptoms, began to make its appearance among our navigators.

Tupia, in particular, was so grievously affected with the disease, that all the remedies prescribed by the surgeon could not retard its progress.