IN NEW ZEALAND. 15 
Patella, identical with a species discovered by Dr. Jos. 
Hooker, at Auckland Island. At four P.M., we arrived at 
Parinuiotera, the high bluff promontory, commonly known 
' from its appearance at sea, by the not inappropriate though 
quite unclassical appellation of **Gable-End Foreland.” 
This remarkable headland, not less than 200 feet in per- 
pendicular height, is entirely composed of white indurated clay, 
on whose face and sides grew not so much as a single moss or 
lichen, from the continual crumbling down of the clay of 
which it is composed. Here, in the pelting rain, beneath 
this towering crag where we could scarcely stand on our 
feet, owing to the extreme slipperiness of the clayey rocks, 
we found that the tide had not sufficiently receded to allow 
of our passing onwards without hazard. As, however, the 
evening was drawing on, and we had stil some distance 
to travel ere we should meet with either food or shelter, we 
were necessitated to make the attempt. Scrambling, in 
some places, on all-fours, like a cat, and upborne by my 
faithful natives, I rounded this cape, through the breakers, 
passing under a natural archway in the rocky cliff, a thing of 
common occurrence, in similar situations, in New Zealand, 
and reached in safety, though wet, and cold, and hungry, the 
other side. Continuing my march, I picked up several 
specimens of d/ge which were new to me (59). At six P.M., 
we arrived at Pakarae, a small village, containing about 
twelve persons, who, according to their custom, heartily 
welcomed us although they had not a scrap of food to give 
us. The old chief kindly pulled up three stakes from the 
fence of his little city as tent-poles for my tent, for trees 
there were none in this neighbourhood, and presented me 
with a dead craw-fish which I was happy enough to obtain, 
and divide among six of my party, including myself, as a sub- 
stitute for supper. Next morning we started early, (having 
procured a basket of sweet potatoes for our breakfast, which 
were fetched during the night from some distance) travel- 
ling, as yesterday, by the sea-side. At two P.M., we halted to 
roast a few potatoes for our dinner which afforded me an 
opportunity of straying about a Mo after acies In — 
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