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there I was hindered from seeing up the inlet by higher hills, 

 which I could not come at for impenetrable woods." All this, 

 and more, is to be found in Wharton at page 185. If I could 

 fire some young men of Wellington to find the exact hill-top, 

 I should be glad to subscribe for a cairn or other monument 

 to mark the spot. 



It was on Motuara that Cook obtained the lesson in 

 geography from an old man, when he gained the names 

 " Eaheinomauwe " and " Tavai Poenammoo."' 1 ' These names 

 have been explained so often that no further talk about them 

 is needed here. 



As our launch turned to leave Ship Cove a head wind arose, 

 and it afterwards became a gale. The launch was small, so 

 small that the man managing it could with one hand steer 

 and with the other stoke ; but she was an excellent sea-boat. 

 The waves rose high, and things were not exactly comfortable. 

 Sometimes for a quarter of an hour, though with full steam on, 

 the boat made no progress. A special inconvenience intro- 

 duced me to a new word — viz., the "willy waughs,"t brief 

 gusts of wind that blew across the sound, carrying spindrift 

 with them. Sometimes, crossing the mouth of a bay, we caught 

 these gusts full and were well-nigh drenched. It took nearly 

 eight hours to return to Picton ; but luckily the Nelson steamer 

 was delayed loading and I obtained the last berth on board, 

 in the most untoward place, right up in the bows, quite a 

 " fo'c'slehand," but, being wet through and having naught but 

 pyjamas to change into, early bed was necessary for me. In 

 the middle of the night the steamer left the mouth of Tory 

 Channel, and within one minute the tossing was such that all 

 pride as to being a good sailor had left me, who yet have been 

 round the world without seasickness. 



In Wellington I was assured that " willy waugh " was a 

 Scotch word, also that it was a corruption from the Maori 

 "wirriwa," which I later found did not exist. On my return 

 to my dictionaries in Melbourne I found the word in the Stan- 

 dard as Patagonian. " Willi-wa, a violent wind from moun- 

 tains in the fiords of Patagonia." An this be true (and I can 

 find no more about it), by what process, through what book, 

 did the word pass from Patagonia to Queen Charlotte Sound ? 

 The " willie-waught " of " Auld Lang Syne " means a draught 

 of liquor, a long drink, not a sprinkling of wet externally. 



Wellington was most hospitable, but Cook was never there. 

 I found a splendid library in the hands of a private collector 

 (Mr. Alexander Turnbull), and I saw two or three books of 

 Cook literature unknown to me before. From Wellington to 



* Spelling copied from Cook's chart. 

 t Thus was I instructed to spell. 



