CHAP. III.] CLOUDY BAY. 95 



to take in Mr. Barret, an old trader and whaler, 

 who was to accompany us to Taranaki. From the 

 entrance of Cloudy Bay to the south entrance of 

 Tory Channel the distance is about twenty miles. 

 The coast between these points is very bold, from 

 200 to 300 feet high, and the sea breaks against the 

 weather-worn rocks with tremendous violence. The 

 aspect of the coast is dreary and barren, the forma- 

 tion being a yellow schistous clay. In the whaling 

 season the boats, running out from Te-awa-iti and 

 Cloudy Bay harbours, are sometimes surprised by a 

 gale, and obliged to run ashore, where they find 

 scanty shelter in a small inlet called Barret's, or in 

 another called Jackson's Boat Harbour, where fre- 

 quently they are windbound for several days, and 

 suffer much from want of provisions, their only re- 

 source being a few shell-fish, and some penguins 

 which inhabit the hollows of the rocks. All the 

 year round whale-boats may be seen running to and 

 fro between Cloudy Bay and Te-awa-iti, Entry Island 

 and Port Nicholson, and other parts of the coast, 

 trading for provisions or cruising for whales. In 

 calm weather the native ventures out in his war 

 canoe, now, happily, seldom bent on warlike enter- 

 prises, but on peaceful visits to his friends and rela- 

 tions. As the prominent points of this coast are 

 therefore well known to whalers, they have given 

 names to all, which I shall adopt in concisely de- 

 scribing them. At a subsequent period I had a run 

 in a whale-boat from Te-awa-iti to Cloudy Bay on a 



