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first interview I had with the family in Dusky Bay ; 

 where each of the two women was armed with a 

 spear not less than eighteen feet in length. 



I was led into these reflections, by not being able to 

 recollect the face of any one person I had seen here 

 three years ago ; nor did it once appear, that any one 

 of them had the least knowledge of me, or of any per- 

 son with me that was here at that time ; it is, there- 

 fore, highly probable, that the greatest part of the 

 people which inhabited this sound in the beginning 

 of the year 1770, have been since driven out of it, 

 or have, of their own accord, removed somewhere 

 else : certain it is, that not one-third of the inhabi- 

 tants were here now, that were then. Their strong 

 hold on the point of Motuara hath been long de- 

 serted ; and we found many forsaken habitations in 

 all parts of the sound ; we are not, however, wholly 

 to infer from this, that this place hath been once very 

 populous ; for each family may, for their own conve- 

 nience, when they move from place to place, have 

 more huts than one or two. 



It may be asked, if these people had never seen the 

 Endeavour, nor any of her crew, how could they 

 become acquainted with the name of Tupia, or have 

 in their possession (which many of them had) such 

 articles, as they could only have got from that ship ? 

 To this it may be answered, that the name of Tupia 

 was so popular among them when the Endeavour 

 was here, that it would be no wonder if, at this time, 

 it was known over great part of New Zealand, and as 

 familiar to those who never saw him, as to those who 

 did. Had ships of any other nation whatever arrived 

 here, they would have equally enquired of them for 

 Tupia. By the same way of reasoning, many of the 

 articles left here by the Endeavour, may be now in 

 possession of those who never saw her. i got from 

 one of the people, now present, an ear-ornament, 

 made of glass, very well formed and polished ; the 

 glass they must have got from the Endeavour. 



