This was a circumstance which perhaps never had happened to any other vessel.

But now our navigators found themselves in an open sea with deep water; and the joy they experienced was proportioned to their late danger, and their present security.
Nevertheless, the very waves, which proved by their swell that our people had no rocks or shoals to fear, convinced them, at the same time, that they could not put a confidence in the ship equal to what they had done before she struck.

So far were the leaks widened by the blows she received from the waves, that she admitted no less than nine inches of water in an hour.

If the company had not been lately in so much more imminent danger, this fact, considering the state of the pumps, and the navigation which was still in view, would have been a matter of very serious concern.
The passage or channel, through which the Endeavour passed into the open sea beyond the reef, lies in latitude 14 deg.

32' south.