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Missionary Embarrassments — Society's Lands — Discon- 

 tent of Settlers — Purchase of Land — Influence of Mission- 

 aries — Their sphere of action 598 



CHAPTER XXVL > 



North Cape of New Zealand — Superstitions — Cook's great 

 Lizard — Traditions — Currents — Thermometer — Sydney 

 — Dr . Darwin — Drought — Aqueduct — Position — Disad- 

 vantages — Ill-acquired wealth of Convicts, or Emancip- 

 ists — Hobart Town — Advantages of Van Diemen's Land 

 King George Soimd — Natives — Dance — Keeling Islands 

 — ^Tides — Soundings — Coral formations — Malays — Fish 

 — Weather — Mauritius — Cape of Good Hope — St. Helena 

 — Ascension — Bahia — Pemambuco — Cape Verde Islands 

 — Azores — Arrive in England 619 



CHAPTER XXVII. 



Remarks on the early migrations of the human race 640 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 

 A very few Remarks vdth reference to the Deluge 657 



