(p70 - December 1768, after leaving Rio de Janeiro with their collection of flora and fauna) ... Banks noted with satisfaction ... one of the most significant and beautiful of them was a vividly coloured climber unknown anywhere else but Brazil, and named by Dr. Solander Calyxis ternaria. It was not introduced to Europe until the 1820s, when it was named Bougainvillea after the French explorer rather than Dr. Solander, or Parkinson who drew it as they sailed south down the Brazil coast towards Patagonia.

(p105 - 3 June 1769 - Tahiti) ... they fixed on the time of 9 hours, 25 minutes and 42 seconds a.m. for the first external contact, with total immersion nineteen minutes later. Throughout that long hot morning, with the temperature rising to 119°F, the little black dot (Venus) could be clearly discerned moving across the face of the sun until it touched the far side at 3 hours, 14 minutes and 8 seconds p.m.

(p135 - approx 28 March 1770) There were two ways home: by way of the Horn, ... or he could sail west. ... taking the Endeavour south of ... Van Diemen's Land, later renamed Tasmania. This was not yet known to be an island south of the great land mass, the continent which the Dutch had named New Holland.
New Holland was not the continent's first name. There is a vast confusion surrounding the origins of the name Australia, but in Spanish interpretations it long ante-dated the Dutch New Holland. Quiros, the Portuguese navigator, 'In the memorial which he addressed to the King of Spain in 1607, says that he named the land Australia "in happy memory of Your Majesty, whose dynastic name is Austria ... In a later Memorial of 1610 Quiros wrote that the King had ordered him to discover land "en la parte Australia Incognita".'

(p137) Early the next morning, 19 April, Zachary Hicks climbed up high in the foremast rigging, keen as always to be the first to sight land. At 6.00 a.m. he had his reward, his moment of triumph, letting out that cry which has sent tremors of joy amongst those who have heard the words since the beginning of seafaring: 'Land ahoy!'
The land, according to Cook, extended from north-east to west at a distance of five or six leagues, and the southernmost point he named Point Hicks.