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CHAP. VII. 



"The Pajfage from Van 'Dkjnens Land to New Zealand. — 

 Employ?nents in ^een Charlottes Sound. — TranfaSiions 

 with the Natives there. — Intellige?2Ce about the Majfacre 

 of the Adventures Boats Crew. — Account of the Chief 

 who headed the Party on that Occafon. — Of the two 

 young Men who embark to attend Ofnai. — Various Re- 

 marks on the Inhabita?its. — Aflronomical and Nautical 

 Ohfervations. 



,^^7, /^ T eight o'clock in the morning of the 30th of January, 



. J"''" "'""^' . x\. a Hght breeze fpringing up at Weft, we weighed an- 



Thurfday3o. ^hoF, and put to fca from Adventure Bay. Scon after, the 



wind veered to the Southward, and increafed to a perfect: 



ftorm. Its fury abated in the evening, when it veered to 



the Eaft and North Eaft. 



This gale was indicated by the barometer, for the wind 

 no fooner began to blow, than the mercury in the tube bs- 

 gan to fall. Another remarkable thing attended the coming 

 on of this wind, which was very faint at iirft. It brought 

 with it a degree of heat that was almoft intolerable. The 

 mercury in the thermometer rofe, as it were inftantane- 

 oufly, from about 70° to near 90°. Ihis heat v/as of fo 

 fliort a continuance, that it feemed to be wafted away be- 

 fore the breeze that brought itj fo that fome on board did 

 not perceive it. 



We 



