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seize her, iu which, however, they failed ; but soon after Mr. Banks got on 

 shore he had hke to have been apprehended by one of the natives, but 

 happily escaped. The marines fired upon them, five great guns were fired 

 from the ship, and Te Kuku, son to one of their chiefs, was wounded in the 

 thigh."* 



"On the 5th a canoe came into the bay that had eighty people in her, 

 most of whom paddled ; the chiefs wore garments of dog-skins, and were 

 very much tattooed. We saw many plantations of the kumera, and some 

 of the ante, or cloth trees. At night again it was almost calm, and we were 

 near the shore. We designed to tack about but were hurried by an eddy 

 tide upon the breakers off a point of land called by us Point Pococke, before 

 we were aware of it, which threw us into a panic and occasioned great 

 confusion. Not having room to anchor we hoisted out the pinnace to tow 

 her off ; we thought we had seen a whale but it proved to be a rock, and we 

 struck upon it twice. We got clear of it again and streamed the buoy, but 

 luckily did not let go the anchor. 



" On the 15th January we anchored in a snug cove in a bay on the south 

 side of Cook's Straits. The woods here abound with divers kinds of birds, 

 such as parrots, wood-pigeons, water-hens, three sorts of birds having 

 wattles, hawks, with a variety of birds that sing all night. We also found 

 a great quantity of a species of Philadelphus, which makes a good substitute 

 for tea. At one particular place we met with a substance that appeared like 

 a kid's skin, but it had so weak a texture that we concluded it was not 

 leather, and were afterwards informed by the natives that it was gathered 

 from some plant called Ti kume ; one of them had a garment made of it 

 which looked like their rug cloaks. The natives in this j)art of New Zealand 

 Avear large bunches of feathers on their heads and their garments in a 

 singular manner, just as Abel Tasman, the j)erson who, about 150 years 

 ago, discovered this land, has figured in his work. They were not desirous 

 of anything we had except nails, which they soon discovered to be useful. 

 When these people are pleased on any particular occasion they express it 

 by crying Ai, and make a cluck with their tongues not unlike a hen's when 

 she calls her chickens. While we lay here some of our people went towards 

 the ija in a boat ; several of the natives came out to welcome them ; most 

 likely they took it to be a traverse, and Mr. Monkhouse shot at them. An 

 old man came in a few days after and told us that one person was dead of a 

 wound which he received. In this pa there were about thirty-two houses, 

 containing upwards of 200 inhabitants. 



* The plate containing the likeness of this young man shows a stj'le of tattooing 

 which has become scarce, if not wholly extinct. I have seen but few specimens, and 

 those more than thirty-five years back. 



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