"The Yawl return'd from fishing, having caught two Sting rays,
whose weight was near 600 lbs. The great quantity of these sort of
fish found in the place occasioned my giving it the name of
_Sting-Ray Harbour_. Light airs and fair weather."
The _Endeavour_ or Banks's Log, 8,959 of Museum, under date May 6,
simply remarks: "Caught two Skeat whose weight was near 600 lbs."; but
the ship left without naming the _Stingray_ or Skeat Bay in this log.
The PALLISER Log, a direct present from Captain Cook to his old patron,
Sir Hugh Palliser, and ever since preserved in the family, though not
positively in Cook's handwriting, is signed by him, and must be ever
considered of the highest authority. It knows nothing of _Botany Bay_.
Extracts from the Palliser Log.