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The peculiarly nourishing moisture of the soil dis- 

 plays itself in some ferns, which have germinated 

 on their parent plant. The forest was enlivened by 

 many of the common birds, and I brought home one 

 of a new species, called pio-pio. 1 We slept another 

 night in the bush. After the spar had been got 

 into the water it would not float, and we were 

 obliged to lash it under the keel of our boat. 



West Bay is a very fine harbour, and, since good 

 timber is found here, it would be a fit place for 

 sawing-establishments, and for a village, whose in- 

 habitants could with ease support themselves by 

 cultivating the flat and available land. Fine sheep- 

 walks are found on some of the open hills in the 

 neighbourhood. 



On the 7th of November I examined East Bay, 

 which consists of three principal branches, on each 

 of which are native settlements. East Bay is 

 formed by the island of Arapaoa. One arm is op- 

 posite Hokokuri, the native settlement in Tory 

 Channel, and is called Otanarua. The hills ascend 

 gently from the sea, with a small extent of flat land 

 of about 400 acres at their base. We found about 

 200 natives assembled there who had arrived from 

 Hokokuri, to which place it takes about two hours 

 to walk ; they had come over to settle about the 

 sale of their land ; they have plantations here. The 

 cabbage, which now abounds in Queen Charlotte's 



1 Turnagra crassirostris, G. R. Gray. Already depicted by 

 Forster in his Icon. ined. t. 145. 



