1768. November. Sunday 20. his boat. When the officer on board the guardboat found that Mr. Hicks was determined to obey my orders, he did not proceed to force, but attended him to the landing-place, and reported the matter to the viceroy. Upon this his excellency refufed to receive the memorial, and ordered Mr. Hicks to return to the ship; when he came back to the boat, he found that a guard had been put on board in his absence, but he abfolutely refused to return till the foldier was removed the officer then proceeded to enforce the viceroy's orders; he feized all the boat's crew, and fent them under an armed force to prifon, putting Mr. Hicks at the fame time into one of their own boats, and fending him under a guard back to the fhip. As foon as he had reported thefe particulars, I wrote again to the viceroy, demanding my boat and crew, and in my letter inclofed the memorial which he had refufed to receive from Mr. Hicks: thefe papers I fent by a petty officer, that I might wave the difpute about a guard, against which I had never objected except when there was a commiffioned officer on board the boat. The petty officer was permitted to go on fhore with his guard, and, having delivered his letter, was told that an answer would be fent the next day. About eight o'clock this evening it began to blow very hard in fudden gufts from the fouth, and Our 1768. November. our long-boat coming on board just at this time with four pipes of rum, the rope which was thrown to her from the ship, and which was taken hold of by the people on board, unfortunately broke, and the boat, which had come to the ship before the wind, went adrift to windward of her, with a small skiff of Mr. Banks's that was fastened to her ftern. This was a great misfortune, as the pinnace being detained on fhore, we had no boat on board but a four-oar'd yawl: the yawl, however, was immediately manned and fent to her affistance; but, notwithstanding the utmost effort of the people in both boats, they were very foon out of fight: far indeed we could not fee at that time in the evening, but the distance was enough to convince us that they were not under command, which gave us great uneafinefs, as we knew they must drive directly upon a reef of rocks which ran out just to leeward of where we lay after waiting fome hours in the utmost anxiety, we gave them over for loft, but about three o'clock the next morning had the Monday 21. fatisfaction to see all the people come on board in the yawl. From them we learnt, that the longboat having filled with water, they had brought her to a grappling and left her; and that, having fallen in with the reef of rocks in their return to obliged to cut Mr. the fhip, they had been Banks's little boat adrift. As the lofs of our long-boat, which we had now too much reafon November. 1768. to apprehend, would have been an unspeakable disadvantage to us, confidering the nature of our expedition, I sent another letter to the viceroy, as foon as I thought he could be feen, acquainting him with our misfortune, and requesting the affistance of a boat from the fhore for the recovery of our own; I alfo renewed my demand that the pinnace and her crew fhould be no longer detained: after fome delay, his excellency thought fit to comply both with my request and demand; and the same day we happily recovered both the long-boat and skiff, with the rum, but every thing else that was on board was loft. On Wednef. 23 the 23d, the viceroy, in his answer to my remon strance against seizing my men and detaining the boat, acknowledged that I had been treated with fome incivility, but faid that the refiftance of my officers, to what he had declared to be the King's orders, made it absolutely neceffary; he also expressed some doubts whether the Endeavour, confidering her structure and other circumstances, was in the fervice of his Majefty, though I had before fhewed him my commiffion: to this I answered in writing, That, to remove all fcruples, I was ready to produce my commiffion again. His excellency's fcruples however still remained, and in his reply to my letter he not only expreffed them in still plainer terms, but accufed my people of fmuggling. This charge, I am confident, was without the leaft leaft foundation in truth. Mr. Banks's fervants 1768. November. had indeed found means to go on fhore on the 22d at day-break, and stay till it was dark in the evening, but they brought on board only plants and infects, having been fent for no other purpofe. And I had the greatest reason to believe. that not a fingle article was fmuggled by any of our people who were admitted on shore, though many artful means were used to tempt them, even by the very officers that were under his excellency's roof, which made the charge still more injurious and provoking. I have indeed fome reafon to fufpect that one poor fellow bought a single bottle of rum with fome of the clothes upon his back; and in my answer I requested of his excellency, that, if fuch an attempt at illicit trade should be repeated, he would without fcruple order the offender to be taken into cuftody. And thus ended our altercation, both by conference and writing, with the viceroy of Rio de Janeiro. A friar in the town having requested the affiftance of our furgeon, Dr. Solander eafily got admittance in that character on the 25th, and re- Friday 25. ceived many marks of civility from the people. On the 26th, before day-break, Mr. Banks alfo Saturd. 26. found means to elude the vigilance of the people in the guard-boat, and got on fhore; he did not however go into the town, for the principal objects of his curiofity were to be found in the fields to him alfo the people behaved with great 1768. November. Saturd, 26. Sunday 27. December. Thurfd. I. Friday 2.. civility, many of them invited him to their houses, and he bought a porker and fome other things of them for the fhip's company; the porker, which was by no means lean, cost him eleven fhillings, and he paid something less than two for a Mufcovy duck. On the 27th, when the boats returned from watering, the people told us there was a report in town, that fearch was making after fome perfons who had been on fhore from the fhip without the viceroy's permiffion; thefe perfons we conjectured to be Dr. Solander and Mr. Banks, and therefore they determined to go on fhore no more. On the first of December, having got our water and other neceffaries on board, I sent to the viceroy for a pilot to carry us to fea, who came off to us; but the wind preventing us from geting out, we took on board a plentiful supply of fresh beef, yams, and greens for the fhip's company. On the 2d, a Spanish packet arrived, with letters from Buenos Ayres for Spain, com manded by Don Antonio de Monte Negro y Velasco, who with great politeness offered to take our letters to Europe: I accepted the favour, and gave him a packet for the secretary of the Admiralty, containing copies of all the papers that had paffed between me and the viceroy; leaving alfo duplicates with the viceroy, to be by him forwarded to Lisbon, On |