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Departure from Sydney. 

 The scientific corps. 



NEW ZEALAND. 



The scientific corps; their passage 

 from Sydney. 



CHAPTER XX. 

 NEW ZEALAND. 



DEPARTURE FROM SYDNEY PASSAGE TO NEW ZEALAND ARRIVAL AT THE BAY OF ISLANDS MEETING WITH THE 

 SCIENTIFIC CORPS THEIR PASSAGE FROM SYDNEY BAY OF ISLANDS RIVERS WHICH FALL INTO IT FACE OF 

 THE COUNTRY ACTIVE VOLCANO HOT SPRING OF TAIAIMI CRATER OF POERUA DR. PICKERING'S VISIT TO 

 HOKIANGA MISSIONARY ESTABLISHMENT AT PAHIA KORORARIKA ENGLISH POLICE MAGISTRATE AND ACTING 

 GOVERNOR TREATY OF CESSION TO ENGLAND CONDUCT OF THE AMERICAN CONSUL INSTALLATION OF THE 

 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OPINION OP THE CHIEFS IN RELATION TO THE TREATY ARRIVAL OF ENGLISH 

 REVENUE OFFICERS LAND CLAIMS BURTHENSOME TAXES AND TARIFF THEIR EFFECT ON AMERICAN COM- 

 MERCE EXPENSE OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT CASE OF JOHN SAC HIS LETTER TO MR. WALDRON FURTHER 

 REMARKS ON THE TREATY OF CESSION VIOLENT GALE ITS EXTENT AND ROTARY CHARACTER FOREIGN RESI- 

 DENTS HIGH PRICE OP LAND MISSIONS TABOO PAS, OR FORTIFIED TOWNS DWELLINGS TOMB DRESS OF 

 THE NATIVES THEIR STOREHOUSES THEIR FOOD THEIR ARMS AND ORNAMENTS KING FOMARE MAUPARAWA 

 CHARLEY POMARE POMARE's WARS CEREMONY OF HIS RETURN HIS MEANNESS POPULATION OF NEW ZEA- 

 LAND VISIT TO WANGARARA POLITENESS OF KO-TOWATOWA WANGARARA BAY CHARACTER OF THE NEW 

 ZEALANDERS THEIR PERSONAL APPEARANCE TRADITION IN RELATION TO THEIR ORIGIN TATTOOED HEADS 

 CANNIBALISM CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF THE NATIVES NATIVE DANCES MUSIC CHATHAM ISLAND- 

 CHART OF THE BAY OF ISLANDS MR. COUTHOUY'S PASSAGE FROM SYDNEY HIS ACCOUNT OF MOUNT EGMONT 

 OF PORT COOPER WARS OF ROBOLUA PORT LEVY KORAKIBARURU PIGEON BAY CAPE CAMPBELL AND SNOWY 

 PEAKS CLOUDY BAY ROBOLUA HABITS OF THE NATIVES, AND PREVAILING WINDS AT CLOUDY BAY CLIMATE 

 OF NEW ZEALAND DISEASES SOIL CULTIVATION VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS TIMBER CANOES QUADRUPEDS 

 BIRDS COMM F.RCE. 



HAVING replenished our stores of provisions, we 

 took, with much regret, a final leave of our friends 

 at Sydney. The Vincennes weighed anchor, and 

 at 3 P.M. on the 19th March we discharged our 

 pilot, and bade adieu to these hospitable shores. 

 The Peacock, not having completed her repairs, 

 was left at Sydney for a few days, with orders to 

 follow us to Tongataboo. 



On reaching a distance of thirty miles from the 

 coast, we again found a difference of three degrees 

 in the temperature of the water, and experienced 

 the effects of a strong current towards the south. 

 The wind was from the northward and east- 

 ward. 



On the 23rd we spoke the French whale-ship 

 Ville de Bordeaux, in want of provisions, which we 

 supplied her. She had been out three years, and 

 had on board four thousand barrels of oil. The 

 crew was reduced to bread and water, and the 

 vessel was apparently in a bad condition in other 

 respects. 



At daylight on the 30th, we made Cape Brett, 

 and after groping our way through the dark, into 

 the Bay of Islands, anchored at 10 P.M. in the 

 Kawa-Kawa river, opposite the residence of Mr. 

 Clendon, the American consul. Here I had the 

 satisfaction to find the Porpoise and Flying-Fish, 

 and received the reports of their cruises ; they 

 were all well on board. The former vessel had 

 arrived a few days, and the latter about three 

 weeks, before us. We were also gratified with 

 the receipt of letters from the United States. 

 Every exertion was made to shorten the duration 

 of our stay in New Zealand, and the necessary in- 

 struments were landed without delay. 



Here also we met all the scientific gentlemen, 

 who, as has been stated, had been left at 

 Sydney when the squadron sailed upon the 

 antarctic cruise, anxiously awaiting our ar- 

 rival. 



They had been forced to remain inactive at 

 Sydney, in consequence of a change in the desti- 

 nation of the vessel in which they had first taken 

 their passages, and by this vexatious delay, had 

 not only been prevented from pursuing further 

 researches in New South Wales, but had lost 

 time that might have been advantageously em- 

 ployed in New Zealand. They finally succeeded 

 in finding an opportunity of reaching the Bay of 

 Islands, in the British brig Victoria. 



After leaving Sydney in this vessel, a sea was 

 shipped, which, besides doing other mischief, en- 

 tered at the cabin-windows, and filled the chrono- 

 meter-box with salt water ; in consequence of 

 which the master considered it necessary to put 

 back, in order to exchange the injured time-piece 

 for another. She accordingly anchored again in 

 Port Jackson. 



On the 7th February, they had a beautiful exhi- 

 bition of the aurora australis : the coruscations 

 were of a straw-coloured light, reaching nearly to 

 the zenith in the southern sky, and lasting from 

 seven until ten o'clock. A noddy lighted on the 

 brig, and remained on board many days ; so 

 tame was it that it even suffered itself to be 

 handled. 



On the 16th, when they had perfoi'med about 

 half the passage, they had another exhibition of 

 the aurora, much like the former ; after which 

 they experienced a gale of wind of five days' dura- 

 tion. On the 2 1st, they were enabled again to 

 make sail, and, on the 23rd, they made the North 

 Cape. A gale then came on from the eastward, 

 and they had a narrow escape from shipwreck 

 while running down the land. On the 24th, they 

 dropped anchor at Kororarika, about three miles 

 above which place they found the United States 

 consul, Mr. Clendon, at Ornotu Point. 



From the splendid panorama of Mr. Burford, 1 

 had pictured the Bay of Islands to myself as a place 



