CHAP. III.] WHALING HARBOURS. 97 



Cloudy Bay : thence the coast sweeps round in a 

 large curve, forming Island Bay, so called from a 

 small rocky isle near the southern shore, called 

 Glasgow Island, from the name of a brig which rode 

 out a heavy gale there. A furious tide sets into this 

 bay, agitating the water even in calm weather. 



Jackson's Boat Harbour, the next inlet between 

 the rocks, affords, if possible, less shelter than Bar- 

 ret's Bight. 



Before reaching the southern head of Tory 

 Channel we pass Lucky Bay, which is of a similar 

 aspect. The southern head of the entrance to Tory 

 Channel forms a promontory, and is remarkable 

 for the broken appearance of the rocks of which it 

 consists. Through some excavations the waves rush 

 from Cook's Straits into this channel. 



When we were off the mouth of the channel we 

 had a moderate south-east wind, and waited for the 

 ebb-tide. As the tide sets into this narrow entrance 

 with great force and velocity, it must always be taken 

 into consideration in running a vessel into the chan- 

 nel. The Honduras had come in the day before, 

 during a calm, with the flood-tide, and two boats 

 towing ahead, yet she struck on a rock off the 

 northern head and became leaky. A pilot is very 

 necessary, and generally one will come off from 

 Te-awa-iti on a gun being fired outside the head. 



Ten or twelve years ago the southern headland 

 of Tory Channel was the scene of a sanguinary 

 contest between the original natives of the channel, 



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