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of sea-stars, some small limpets, and large quantities of 

 sponge one sort of which, that is thrown on shore by the 

 sea, but not very common, has a most delicate texture. 



" Insects, though not numerous, are here in considerable 

 variety. Among them are grasshoppers, butterflies, and 

 several sorts of small moths, finely variegated. There are 

 two sorts of dragon-flies, gad-flies, camel-flies, several sorts 

 of spiders ; and some scorpions ; but the last are rather 

 rare. The most troublesome, though not very numerous 

 tribe of insects, are the mosquitoes ; and a large black ant, 

 the pain of whose bite is almost intolerable, during the 

 short time it lasts. 



The inhabitants, whom we met here, had little of that 

 fierce or wild appearance common to people in their 

 situation ; but, on the contrary, seemed mild and cheerful, 

 without reserve or jealousy of strangers. This, however, 

 may arise from their having little to lose or care for. With 

 respect to personal activity or genius, we can say but little 

 of either. They do not seem to possess the first in any 

 remarkable degree ; and as for the last, they have, to 

 appearance, less than even the half-animated inhabitants of 

 Terra del Fuego, who have not invention sufficient to make 

 clothing for defending themselves from the rigour of their 

 climate, though furnished with the materials. Their colour 

 is a dull black, and not quite so deep as that of the African 

 negroes. Their hair, however, is perfectly woolly, and it is 

 clotted or divided into small parcels, like that of the 

 Hottentots, with the use of some sort of grease, mixed with 

 a red paint or ochre, which they smear in great abundance 

 over their heads ; and they wear their beards long, and 

 clotted with paint, in the same manner as the hair on their 

 heads. At eight o'clock in the morning of the 30th of 

 January, a light breeze springing up at west, we weighed 

 anchor and put to sea from Adventure Bay. We pursued 

 our course to the eastward, without meeting with any thing 

 worthy of note, till the night between the 6th and 7th of 

 February, when a marine belonging to the Discovery fell 

 overboard, and was never seen afterward. 



" On the 12th of February, at four in the afternoon, we 

 discovered the land of New Zealand ; and soon after came 

 to an anchor in Queen Charlotte Sound. Here several 

 canoes, filled with natives, came alongside of the ships ; but 

 very few of them would venture on board ; which appeared 

 the more extraordinary, as I was well known by them all. 

 There was one man in particular amongst them, whom I had 

 treated with remarkable kindness during the whole of 

 my stay when I was last here. Yet now, neither professions 

 of friendship nor presents could prevail upon him to come 



