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A VOYAGE TO 



February. 



fuch a manner, that no two blafts follow each other from 

 the fame quarter ; and the nearer the fliore, the more their 

 efFe(fb3 are felt. 



The next day we were vifited by a tribe or family, con- 

 fifling of about thirty perfons, men, women, and children, 

 ■who came from the upper part of the Sound. I had never 

 feen them before. The name of their Chief was Toma- 

 tongeauooranuc ; a man of about forty-five years of age, 

 with a cheerful open countenance. And, indeed, the reft 

 of his tribe were, in general, the handfomeft of the New 

 Zealand race I had ever met with. 



By this time more than two-thirds of the inhabitants of 

 the Sound had fettled themfelves about us. Great numbers 

 of them daily frequented the fliips, and the encampment on 

 fhore: but the latter became, by far, the moft favourite 

 place of refort, while our people there were melting fome 

 feal blubber. No Greenlander was ever fonder of train-oil, 

 than our friends here feemed to be. They relifhed the very 

 fkimmings of the kettle, and dregs of the cafks; but a little 

 of the pure ftinking oil was a delicious feafl, fo eagerly de- 

 fired, that 1 fuppofe it is feldom enjoyed. 



Having got on board as much hay and grafs as we judged 

 fufficient to ferve the cattle till our arrival at Otaheite, and 

 having completed the wood and water of both lliips, on 

 Sunday 23. the 23d we fcruck our tents, and carried every thing off 

 Monday 24. from the fhore; and next morning we weighed anchor, and 

 flood out of the Cove. But the wind not being very fair, 

 and finding that the tide of ebb would be fpent before we 

 could get out of the Sound, we caft anchor again a little 

 without the ifland Motuara, to wait for a more favour- 

 able opportunity of putting into the ftrait. 



While 



