194 NEW ZEALAND CHAP, VIII 
29th. Our water having been got on board the day 
before yesterday, and nothing done yesterday but getting a 
small quantity of wood and a large supply of excellent 
celery, with which this country abounds, we this morning 
sailed. 
30th. Before noon we passed by a cape which the 
captain judged to be the easternmost point of the country, 
and therefore called it East Cape, at least till another is 
found which better deserves that name. 
1st November. Just at nightfall we were under a small 
island, from whence came off a large double canoe, or rather 
two canoes lashed together at a distance of about a foot, 
and covered with boards so as to make a kind of deck. 
She came pretty near the ship, and the people in her talked 
with Tupia with much seeming friendship; but when it 
was just dark they ran the canoe close to the ship and 
threw in three or four stones, after which they paddled 
ashore. 
2nd. Passed this morning between an island and the 
main, which appeared low and sandy, with a remarkable hill 
inland: flat and smooth as a molehill, though very high and 
large. Many canoes and people were seen along shore. 
Some followed us, but could not overtake us. <A sailing 
canoe that had chased us ever since daybreak then came up 
with us, and proved the same double canoe which had 
pelted us last night, so that we prepared for another volley 
of their ammunition, dangerous to nothing on board but our 
windows. The event proved as we expected, for after having 
sailed with us an hour they threw their stones again. A 
musket was fired over them and they dropped astern, not, I 
believe, at all frightened by the musket, but content with 
having showed their courage by twice insulting us. We 
now begin to know these people, and are much less afraid 
of any daring attempt from them than we were. 
The country appeared low, with small cliffs near the 
shore, but seemingly very fertile inland; we saw plainly 
with our glasses villages larger than any we had before 
seen, situated on the tops of cliffs in places almost in- 
