T H E P A C I F I C O C E A N. 125 



On the 15th, I made an excurfion in my boat to look for , »7/7- 



February. 



grafs, and vilited the Piippah, or fortified village at tlie ^ • 



South Weft point of Motuara, and the places where our " ' ^ ^' 

 gardens had been planted on that ifland. There were no 

 people at the former; but the houfes and pallifades had 

 been rebuilt, and were now in a ftate of good repair; and 

 there were other evident marks of its having been inha- 

 bited not long before. It would be unneceflary, at prefenr, 

 to give a particular account of this Hippah, fufficient notice 

 having been taken of it in the Account of my firft Voyage, 

 to which I refer*; and to the annexed drawing, which re- 

 prefents part of the infide of the village, and will convey a 

 better idea of it, than any written defcription. 



When the Adventure arrived firft at Queen Charlotte's 

 Sound, in 1773!, Mr. Bayly fixed upon this place for mak- 

 ing his obfervations ; and he, and the people with him, at 

 their leifure hours, planted f>."veral fpots with Englifh gar- 

 den feeds. Not the leaft veftige of thefe now remained. It 

 is probable that they had been all rooted out to make room 

 for buildings, when the village was reinhabited : for, at all 

 the othei gardens then planted by CaptainFurneaux, although 

 now wholly over-run with the weeds of the cou^ntry, we 

 found cabbages, onions, leeks, purllain, radiOies, muftard, 

 &c. and a few potatoes.' Thefe potatoes, which were firft 

 brought from the Cape of Good Hope, had been greatly 

 improved by change of foil ; and, with proper cultivation,, 

 would be fuperior to thofe produced in moll, other countries. 

 Though the New Zealanders are fond of this root, it was 

 evident that tliey had not taken the trouble ro plant a fingle 

 one (much lefs any other of the articles which we had in^- 



* Hawkefworth's Colledion, Vol. ii. p. 395, &c, 

 + Cook's Voyage, Vol. i. p. 120. 



troduced) ;. 



