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hardest part of tl>e gale was over, it set to the south-west, at 

 about the same rate. 



Both before and during these three days, I was struck by the 

 precise similarity of the clouds, sky, peculiarities of wind, and 

 weather, to what we had been accustomed to meet with off' 

 the coast of Patagonia : and I may here remark that, through- 

 out the southern hemisphere, the weather, and the turn or suc- 

 cession of winds, as well as their nature and prognostications, are 

 remarkably uniform. 



On the 19th we made the northern hills of New Zealand ; 

 but tantalized still by adverse winds, all the next day was spent 

 in beating to windward, and not till the 21st could we succeed 

 in obtaining access to the Bay of Islands. 



We were all a good deal disappointed by the view. After 

 Otaheite, the northern part of New Zealand had, to our eyes, 

 a very ordinary appearance. 



