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comrades, which having effected, they quietly departed. After having 
taken possession of the country in form for the King, our company embarked 
and went round the bay in search of water again, and to apprehend, if 
possible, some of the natives, to gain farther information of them respecting 
the island. They had not gone far before they saw a canoe, gave chase to 
it, and when they came up with it, the crew threw stones at them, and were 
very daring and insolent. Our people had recourse to their arms; the 
Captain, Dr. Solander, and Mr. Banks fired at them and killed and wounded 
several of them. The natives fought very desperately with their paddles, 
but were soon overpowered ; their canoe was taken, three of them made 
prisoners and brought on board the ship, and the rest were suffered to 
escape. They were in person much like the natives of Otaheite, but were 
loud and rude in their address, and more unpolished than the Otaheitians. 
We were much surprised to find they spoke the Otaheitian language, though 
in a different dialect, speaking very guttural, having a kind of hee which 
some of the people of Ulietea have in their speech. Tupaea understood 
them very well, notwithstanding they made frequent use of the g and k, 
which the people of Otaheite do not. Their canoe was thirty feet long, 
made of planks sewed together, and had a lug-saif made of matting. * * * 
We found here a sort of long-pepper which tasted very much like mace; a 
Fulica or a bald-coot of a dark blue colour; and a blackbird, the flesh of 
which was an orange colour, and tasted like stewed shell-fish. A vast 
quantity of pumice-stone lies all along upon the shore* within the bay, 
which indicates that there is a volcano in this island. On the 12th, early 
in the morning, we weighed anchor and attempted to find some better 
anchoring-place, as this bay (which, from the few necessaries we could 
procure, we called Poverty Bay) was not well sheltered from a S.E. wind, 
which brings in a heavy sea. The natives called the bay Te Oneroa, and 
the point of land at the entrance on the east side they called Te Tua Motu. 
On the 13th, in the afternoon, after we had doubled a small high island, 
which was called Portland Isle, (or according to the natives, Te Haure,) we 
got into a sort of large bay, and the night coming on we thought it best to 
drop anchor, designing, next morning, to make for a harbour in the corner 
of the bay, where there was the appearance of an inlet. * * * On the 
14th we made for the inlet which we saw the night before, and on coming 
up to it found that it was not sheltered, having only some low land at the 
bottom of it. Ten canoes filled with people chased us, but our ship sailing 
too fast for them they were obliged to give over the pursuit. We sailed 
round most part of the bay without finding any opening, and the soundings 
all along the shore were very regular. The country appeared more fertil 
* This does not appear in Cook, pre 
