Sir Joseph Banks entered into his journal that the natives called it a "Kangooroo". The animal was thereafter called by this name by Europeans after settlement began. When Captain Phillip King stopped over on the same coast in 1820, however, and made the same enquiry, he was told that the animal in question was called "minnar/meenuah". There arose an urban legend that in fact what the word 'kangaroo' must have meant, when the indigenous people of the Endeavour River responded to the incomprehensible English query, was "I don't know". Light was shed on the point by the American anthropologist John Haviland, who studied the Guugu Yimithirr language intensively from 1971 onwards. He discovered that in fact a word like 'kangaroo' did exist in Guugu Yimithirr, namely "gangurru". This denoted however a species, the large grey kangaroo, that was relatively rare in the coastal territory, while the other word reported by King was an approximation to their word for meat or edible animal ("minha"). Cook's report and reputation as a precise observer was vindicated.