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CHAP. IV. 



PASSAGE FROM AMSTERDAM TO QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S SOUND, 

 WITH AN ACCOUNT OF AN INTERVIEW WITH THE INHABI- 

 TANTS, AND THE FINAL SEPARATION OF THE TWO SHIPS. 



x\bout the time we were in a condition to make 

 sail, a canoe, conducted by four men, came along-side, 

 with one of those drums already mentioned, on which 

 one man kept continually beating; thinking, no doubt, 

 the music would charm us. I gave them a piece of 

 cloth, and a nail, for the drum ; and took the oppor- 

 tunity to send to my friend Attago some wheat, peas, 

 and beans, which I had forgot to give him when he 

 had the other seeds. As soon as this canoe was 

 gone, we made sail to the southward, having a gentle 

 gale at S. E. by E., it being my intention to proceed 

 directly to Queen Charlotte's Sound in New Zealand, 

 there to take in wood and water, and then to go on 

 farther discoveries to the south and east. 



In the afternoon on the 8th, we made the island of 

 Pilstart, bearing S. W. by W. 1 W., distant seven or 

 eight leagues. This island, which was also disco- 

 vered by Tasman, is situated in the latitude of 22 26' 

 south, longitude 175 59' west, and lies in the direc- 

 tion of S. 5 C 2 west, distant thirty-two leagues from 

 the south end of Middleburg. It is more conspi- 

 cuous in height than circuit ; having in it two con- 

 siderable hills, seemingly disjoined from each other 

 by a low valley. After a few hours' calm, the wind 

 came to S. W., with which we stretched to the S. E., 

 but, on the 10th, it veered round by the south to the 

 S. E. and E. S. E., and then we resumed our course to 

 the S. S. W. 



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