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on shore. Cook had several kinds of cereals 

 sown, and planted carrots, turnips, parsnips and 

 potatoes. 



Cook's relations with the natives on the shores 

 of the Sound were far more friendly than they 

 had been during his last voyage. Two or three 

 Maori families established themselves near the 

 ships, and kept themselves busy fishing for the 

 Englishmen, who, thanks to the efforts of these 

 adroit fishermen, were amply furnished with all 

 sorts of fish. 



Cook and his companions received many vis- 

 its from the natives. They formed a less high 

 opinion of the morality of the people and the 

 chastity of their women than they had before. 

 The women, in whom the sailors appeared to 

 discover charms, were far from fascinating 

 Cook and his gentlemen. "Their lips," as one 

 reads in Forster's Journal, "were covered with 

 little spots painted with blackish blue: their 

 cheeks were covered with a bright red mixture 

 of earth and oil. Their hair and clothes were 

 full of vermin, which they occasionally ate, and 

 their unpleasant smell announced them from 

 afar. However, their black eyes, lively enough, 

 were not lacking in expression, and the grouping 

 of their features was fairly agreeable." 



There were the usual thefts. One day a Maori 

 woman stole the jacket of one of the sailors and 



