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CHAPTER V. 



Return to Queen Charlotte's Sound. West Bay. East Bay. 

 Island of Arapaoa. 



WE left the roadstead of Mana on the 31st of Octo- 

 ber with a N. W. breeze, and steered for the entrance 

 of Queen Charlotte's Sound, in order to go into East 

 Bay, as it is called by Captain Cook, where the 

 Nga-te-awa tribe have several settlements. The 

 agent of the New Zealand Company had purchased 

 from those of this tribe who reside at Kapiti all 

 their remaining claims to the land on both sides of 

 Cook's Strait, and he was now proceeding to pur- 

 chase the claims of those residing in East Bay. Te 

 Patu, whom I have mentioned before, lives at East 

 Bay, and we took him with us from Waikanahi to 

 his own settlement. The wind was favourable, and 

 we crossed the strait in a few hours. 



Before noon we had the Two Brothers on our 

 larboard side : they consisted of rocks clothed with 

 a thin vegetation. The sea breaks furiously against 

 them, and access seems difficult. Seals have now 

 almost disappeared from the coasts of New Zealand, 

 but a few sometimes resort here : they do not, how- 

 ever, escape the pursuit of man, who follows them 

 into their most secluded retreats. At noon we were 



