metrically arranged, in fuch a manner, as to exprefs the
feelings of the mourners, by their flow movement.
aghëe, matte awhay Tup aya!
Departed, dead, alas ! Tupaya !
The firft effufions of grief are not loquacious ; the only
idea to which we can give utterance is that of our lofs,
which takes the form of a complaint. Whether the fim-
plicity of the tune is equally agreeable, or well judged, is a
queftion which I cannot pretend to determine. The con-
noifieurs in mufic mull acquit or condemn the New
Zeelanders.
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A ghee mat -t.e a•whay Tu-pa-ya.
They defcend at the clofe from c to the ottave below in
a fall, refembling the Aiding of a finger along the fingerboard
on the violin. I ffiall now difmifs this fubjett with
the following obfervation, that the tafte for mufic of the
New Zeelanders, and their fuperiority in this refpett to other
nations in the South Seas, are to me ftronger proofs, in favour
of their heart, than all the idle eloquence of philo-
fophers in their cabinets can invalidate. They have violent
paffions ; but it would be abfurd to alien that thefe only lead
them to inhuman excefiesi.
We continued to make feveral excurfions along Ihore,
and to the iAands in the Sound, till the 9th of November.
In this interval we made fuch additions to our botanical
and zoological collettions, as could hardly have been ex-
petted at fo early a feafon, and after fearching the fame
woods fo many times. We colletted ten or twelve fpecies
of plants, and four or five forts of birds, which we had not
feen before.. Our crew affiduoufiy filled all our water-calks,
eut a great quantity of wood,, repaired the rigging, and:
fitted the fliip once more to encounter the fury of fouthern
gales. The quantity of filh which the natives daily
brought for fale, allowed us to fait fo many as to fill feveral
calks with them, which ferved as a fea-fiock during our
paffage to Tierra del Fuego, kept extremely well, and were
very palatable to moft people. The latter part of our fiay was
likewife employed in laying in an ample provifion of lhags,
cormorants, and fuch other birds as we could find, in order
that we might prolong as much as poffible the term of living
on frelh' food.
On the 9th, in the afternoon, we unmoored, and rode
all night at a fingle anchor, which we weighed the
next morning at four, thus leaving New Zeeland a third-
time in the courfe of one voyage. As often as we had vifited
this country, it had abundantly fupplied us with refrefh-
ments, which were particularly efficacious in reftbring
our health, and banilhing the fymptoms of the fcurvy.
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