ApriV number of large fpike-nails, befides many other articles.
— ' So far as thefe things may be counted riches in New Zea- T uefday 20. . , land, he exceeds every man there; being at this time pof-
feffed of more hatchets and axes than are in the whole
country befides.
We4ntf. 21. I n the afternoon of the 21ft, I went with a party out to the
ifles on leal hunting, The furf ran fo high that we could
only land in one place, where we killed ten. Thefe animals
ferved us for three purpofes ; the ikins we made ufe of for
our rigging; the fat gave oil for our lamps; and the flelh we
eat. Their harflets are equal to that of a hog, and the flefh
of feme of them eats little inferior to beef fteaks: The
following day nothing worthy of notice was done.
Friday 23. in the morning of the 23d, Mr. Pickerfg'ill, Mr. Gilbert,
and two others, went to the Cafcade Cove, in order to afeend
one of the mountains, the fummit of which they reached
by two o’clock in the afternoon, as we could fee by the fire
they made. In the evening they returned onboard, and
reported that, in land, nothing was to be feen but barren
mountains with huge craggy precipices, disjoined by valleys,
or rather chafms, frightful to behold. On the S. E. fide of
Cape Weft, four miles out at fea, they difcovered a ridge of
rocks, on which the waves broke very high. I believe thefe
rocks to be the fame we faw the evening we firft fell in with
the land.
Having five geefe left out of thofe we brought from the
Saturday 24. Cape of Good Hope, I went with them next morning to
Goofe Cove (named fo on this account), where I left them.
I chofe this place for two reafons; firft, here are no inhabitants
to difturb them; and fecondly, here being the moft
food, I make no doubt but that they will breed, and may
in
in time fpread over the whole country, and fully anfwer I77?.
my intention in leaving them. We fpent the day (hooting in c_
and about the Cove, and returned aboard about ten o’clock Sat“rday
in the evening. One of the party fhot a white hern, which
agreed exaElly with Mr. Pennant’s defeription, in his Britiih
Zoology, of the white herns that either now are, dr were
formerly, in England.
The 25th was the eighth fair day we had had fuccef- Sunday.
fivdly; a circumftance, I believe, very uncommon in this
place, efpecially at this feafon of the year. This fair weather
gave us an opportunity to. complete our wood and water, to-
overhaul the rigging, caulk the fhip, and put her in a condition
for fea. Fair weather was, however, now at an end;
for it began to rain this evening, and continued,, without intermillion,
till noon the next day, when we call off the fhore Monday 26,
falls, hove the fhip out of the creek to her anchor, and Readied
her with an hawfer to the fhore.
On the 27th, hazy weather, with Ihowers of rain. In the Tuefday 27.-
morning I fet out, accompanied by Mr. Pickerfgill and the
two,Mr. Fdrfters, to explore the arm or inlet I difcovered the
day I returned from the head of the bay. After rowing about-
two leagues up if, or rather down, I found it to communicate
with the fea, and to afford a better outlet for Ihips bound,
to the North than the one I came in by. After making
this difeovery, and refrefhing ourfel.ves on broiled fifh and-
wild fowl, we fet our for the fhip, and got on board at eleven;
o’clock at night; leaving two arms we had difcovered, and
which run into the Eaft, unexplored. In this expedition we
fhot forty-four birds, fea-pies, ducks, &c. without going
one foot out of our way, or caufing any other delay than pick'--
ing them up.. , • L
Having;