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edge to the summit. After this we neared Rangi- 

 toto, or D'Urville's Island, the aspect of which is 

 similar. The character of the land was in no way 

 promising. Where no wood covered the steep 

 sides of the hills, a barren-looking yellow stratified 

 rock appeared. At two o'clock in the afternoon 

 we rounded Point Jackson, the western headland 

 of Queen Charlotte's Sound. On this point, which 

 is a steep cliffy promontory, with a reef of rocks 

 running out from it, we observed the palings of a 

 native fortification. To our left we had the island 

 which Captain Cook calls Long Island, and before 

 us was the Island of Motuara. The former consists 

 of a sharp ridge of hills, the formation of which is 

 a yellow argillaceous slate. There is no land at 

 their base, which is washed by the sea, but the island 

 appears as if it were wearing away ; and partly by 

 the action of tide and waves, partly by the rains, 

 several slips have been produced at its sides, where 

 the bare rock is now visible. 



When we entered the Sound we saw several canoes 

 leaving a bay in the neighbourhood of Point Jack- 

 son, but they did not come up to us. 



We steered between Long Island and Motuara. 

 Before we came to an anchor in Ship Cove we 

 descried a canoe coming from a neighbouring cove, 

 called Cannibals' Cove in Cook's chart, and Anaho 

 by the natives. It was a small and frail vessel, and 

 contained eight men, who, it appeared, had been 

 fishing. They were clothed in coarse mats, and 

 some of them were painted with red ochre. When 



