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understood from our people what things were left in 

 Cascade Cove, the place where they were first seen, 

 he sent and took them away. He and his family 

 remained near us till to-day, when they all went 

 away, and we saw them no more ; which was the 

 more extraordinary, as he never left us empty-handed. 

 From one or another he did not get less than nine 

 or ten hatchets, three or four times that number of 

 large spike nails, besides many other articles. So 

 far as these things may be counted riches in New 

 Zealand, lie exceeds every man there ; being at this 

 time possessed of more hatchets and axes than are 

 in the whole country besides. 



In the afternoon of the 21st, I went with a party 

 out to the isles on seal-hunting. The surf ran so 

 high that we could only land in one place, where we 

 killed ten. These animals served us for three pur- 

 poses ; the skins we made use of for our rigging ; the 

 fat gave oil for our lamps ; and the flesh we ate. 

 Their harslets are equal to that of a hog, and the 

 flesh of some of them eats little inferior to beef 

 steaks. The following day nothing worthy of notice 

 was done. 



In the morning of the 23d, Mr. Pickersgill, Mr. 

 Gilbert, and two others, went to the Cascade Cove, in 

 order to ascend one of the mountains, the summit of 

 which they reached by two o'clock in the afternoon, 

 as w 7 e could see by the fire they made. In the even- 

 ing they returned on board, and reported, that in- 

 land nothing was to be seen but barren mountains, 

 with huge craggy precipices, disjoined by valleys, or 

 rather chasms, frightful to behold. On the S. E. 

 side of Cape West, four miles out at sea, they dis- 

 covered a ridge of rocks, on which the waves broke 

 verv high. I believe these rocks to be the same we 

 saw the evening we first fell in with the land. 



Having five geese left out of those we brought 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, I went with them next 

 morning to Goose Cove (named so on this account), 



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