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groveling appetites ; but the imperious element, on which
they are continually toffed about, feems to level all dif-
tindtions. Indeed, when people habitually give full courfe
to their unbounded defires, it is not furprifing that they gratify
one fenfe at the expence of all the reft. The nations
■ whom we had lately vifited in the New Hebrides, and at
New Caledonia, having very wifely declined every indecent
familiarity with their guefts, the moft loathfome objefts in
a New Zeelander’s fmoky and nafty hovel, were eagerly
addreffed.
The next day was very fair, after an interval of bad
weather ; captain Cook therefore chofe to make an excur-
fion, to trace the end of the found, which ftill remained
unknown. We fet out in a boat, and advanced a confider-
able way towards fome canoes which were fifhing. At
fight of us the people in them left their employment, and
paddled away ; but as our crew rowed very brifkl-y, we
foon overtook them, and enquired if they knew a paflage
out to fea through the extremity of the Sound. They
feemed not to underftahd our queftion, but offered us fome
fifh, which they had juft caught. We purchafed a great"
quantity, and found the natives very friendly in their behaviour,
they having been on board the fhip a few days before.
Receiving no intelligence from them, we rowed a
great way higher, and palled an arm of the Sound to the
left, and feveral bays and coves on the right hand. Here
meeting with another canoe, which came up towards us,
we afked the natives concerning the outlet into the fea.
They pointed out the left, or eaftern arm, and told us that,
the other to the fouth at laft ended in a bay, which was
every where furrounded by mountains. Upon their report
we fleered into the eaftern arm, and foon difcovered a moft.
fpacious bay in it,, to the right of which the fhores were:
every where lined with natives. We landed at one of the
moft populous places, and faluted by the nofe the chief and
principal people, who ftepped forward from the reft. The
chief immediately acquainted us that his name was Tringo-
Boohee *. He was a little elderly man, but very active,,
lively and friendly ; his face was pundtured all over in:
ferolls, by which he diftinguilhed himfelf from every one
©f his countrymen prefent, who were all much lefs disfigured
by this operation. The women fat in feveral rows-
before their huts, and a few of them were known to us,
having been on board the fhip fome days before. They all
feemed to be much better fituated than the fcattered famir
lies in the neighbourhood of our cove ; their garb was new-
and neat, and the features of fome much lefs difgufting than
we had generally feen. Perhaps this was owing to their
faces being clean, without being covered with paint, foot*,
or other dirt. The number of men encreafed about us.
* Tringho feems to be a kind of title among them, being affixed to feveral:
names of their chiefs, every
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