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of about three miles. This island, which the natives 

 call Teahowray, 1 named the Island of Portland, 

 from its very great resemblance to Portland, in the 

 English Channel : it lies about a mile from a point 

 on the main ; but there appears to be a ridge of rocks, 

 extending nearly, if not quite, from one to the other. 

 N. 57 E. two miles from the south point of Port- 

 land, lies a sunken rock, upon which the sea breaks 

 with great violence. We passed between this rock 

 and the land, having from seventeen to twenty 

 fathom. 



In sailing along the shore, we saw the natives as- 

 sembled in great numbers as well upon Portland is- 

 land as the main : w^e could also distinguish several 

 spots of ground that were cultivated ; some seemed 

 to be fresh turned up, and lay in fiuTows like ploughed 

 land, and some had plants upon them in different 

 stages of their growth. We saw also in two places, 

 high rails upon the ridges of hills, like what we had 

 seen upon the peninsula at the north-east head of Po- 

 verty Bay : as they were ranged in lines only, and 

 not so as to inclose an area, we could not guess at 

 their use, and therefore supposed they might be the 

 work of superstition. 



About noon another canoe appeared, in which 

 were four men ; she came within about a quarter of a 

 mile of us, where the people on board seemed to 

 perform divers ceremonies : one of them who was in 

 the bow, sometimes seemed to ask and to offer peace, 

 and sometimes to threaten war, by brandishing a 

 weapon that he held in his hand : sometimes also he 

 danced, and sometimes he sung. Tupia talked 

 much to him, but could not persuade him to come to 

 the ship. 



Between one and two o'clock we discovered land 

 to the westward of Portland, extending to the south- 

 ward as far as we could see ; and as the ship was 

 hauling round the south end of the island, she sud- 

 denly fell into shoal water and broken ground : we 



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