»773* in New Zeeland, fof a. fet of people to touch at in our
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fituation, exhaufted with labours and hardfliips of long
continuance, and deprived of the fight of .land above four
months. Nothing is more eafy than to fail into it, there
being no danger except what is vifible above water, and
fo many harbours and coves exifting in every part of it,
that it is impoffible to mifs a convenient anchoring-place,
where wood, water, filh, and wild-fowl are to be found in
plenty.
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C H A P . VI.
Pajfage from Dujky Bay to Queen Charlotte s Sound.— yun£Uon with
the Mventure.— T'ranfaSions during our jlay there.
HAVING hoifted in our boat, which returned loaden Tuetdaypr.
with feals, we flood to the northward, with a heavy
S. W. fwell, and numerous footy albatroffes and blue petrels
attending us. As we advanced along Ihore, the moun- -
tains feemed to decreafe in height, and in four and twenty
hours the thermometer rofe 74 degrees, having been at
4 6 0 on the day after we left Dufky Bay, and Handing at
5 3i° the next morning at eight o’clock. Thurflay ,r.
On the 14th, being off Cape Foul-wind, our favourable
gale left us, as if it meant to authenticate the propriety of
the denomination, and we really had a contrary wind-
It blew a hard gale all the 1 6th, attended with heavy. Sunday.®
rains, and we kept plying the whole day, making one of.
our boards clofe in Ihore under Rock’s Point,
At four o’clock in the morning on the 1.7 th we flood to
the eaftward with a fair wind, fo that we were abreaft of
Cape Farewell at eight o’clock. Here we faw the land appearing
low and fandy near the fea-Ihore, though it rofe
into high fnow-capt mountains in the interior parts. Vaft.
flocks of the little diving, petrel, ~(pocellaria tridaclylaj. were:
feent