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Dusky Bay is the Southern mofl place on New-Zeeland, progress 



we touched at; the latitude of the place where the aflronomers 



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being 45° 47 



We found th 



branching out into fpacious 



bay, which has feveral leagues of extent 



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inlets, flocked with many kinds of fowl, crowded with prodigious 

 quantities oi the beil flavoured fifli, and its rocks covered with 

 numerous herds of feals ; all which abundance would naturally 



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invite people, who folely fubfift upon fifli and fowl, to fettle here, 

 and to become very numerous. But we found only three families 

 in all this bay : their habitations confifled of a few fticks fluck 

 into the ground, and meanly covered with flags and ruflies : they 



had no idea of cultivating or planting 



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as covered the upper part of the body, and left the legs and part 

 of the thighs expofed, and they fquatted down to flicker them 

 under their clothes, which commonly were remarkably uncleanly ; 

 and the families fettled here, feemed to be independent of each 

 other. When we came to Queen Charlotte's Sound, we 

 found on the fhores of that equally fpacious water, four or five 

 hundred people, and fome of them paid deference to feveral old 

 men, as Tringoboohee, Goobaya^ and Teiratoo, who were it feems 



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their chiefs. Filh were in this place equally abundant,but of a fort in- 



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ferior in tafle and goodnefs ; wild fowl, efpecially of the aquatic 

 kind, were fcarcer, and we faw but one feal, though our two fhips 



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