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1 1 a-Til precipices which they met on their way, arid along moll benefit of future generations of navigators and New Zee- a?Iil ill iliPli ill
of which they contrived to Aide down by the help of trees landers. There can be little doubt indeed, but that they
and buthes. At a confiderable height they met with three will fucceed in this fecluded fpot, and in time fpread over
or four trees, which they took for palms, and of which the whole country, anfwerable to our original intention. The
they cut down one, and ufed its middlemoft flioot for their reft of this day was fpent in fhooting, and among the dif-
1 1 vefrefliment. Thefe trees, however, were not the true ferent birds killed was a white heron (ardea albajy common.
I B cabbage palms, nor did they belong at all to the clafs of to Europe.
19911 p a l m s , which are generally confined to more temperate The fair weather, which had lafted eight days fucceffiveclimates.
They were properly fpeaking, a new fpecies ly, was entirely at an end on the 25 th, when the rain fet Sunday ,s.
of dragon-trees, with broad leaves, (draetzm aufiralh) of in again towards evening, and continued till the next day
which the central flioot when quite tender, taftes fomething at noon. We had reafon to believe fucb a continuance of Monday as.
like an almond's kernel, with a little—of the flavour of dry weather- very uncommon in Dufky Bay, and particularcabbage.
We afterwards obferved more of them in other ly at this feafon, becaufe we never experienced above two
parts of this hay. fair days one after another, either before or after this week.
l i i ; The next morning I accompanied captain Cook to the We had, however, improved this opportunity to complete
cove on the N. W. part of the bay, which from the tranfaclion our wood and water, and put the floop in condition to go
of this day, received the name of Goofe Cove. We had five out to fea, and having taken on board all our men, we
tame geefe left, of thofe which we had taken on board call off our bridge, and removed out of the creek, into the
i l l id at the Cape of Good Hope, and thefe we intended to leave middle of our cove, ready to fail with the firfi: fair wind.
hi 1 1 | in New Zeeland to breed, and run wild. This cove: was The fuperiority of a ftate of civilization over 'that of bar-
■ looked upon as the moft convenient place for that purpofe, barifm could not be more clearly ftated, than by the altera-
[ill fmee there were no inhabitants to difturb them, and be- tions and improvements we had made in this place. In
1 i j 9 . caufe it afforded an abundance of proper food. We fet the courfe of a few days, a fmall part of us had cleared
them on fliore, and they immediately ran to feed in the away the woods from a furface of more than an acre,
mud, at the head of the cove where we left them, pro- which fifty New Zeelanders, with their tools of ftone, could
nouncing over them the crejcite fjf multipliciamini, for the Vol. I. A a not
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