346 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [October 



words they knew with what we knew of their language, could make 

 themfelves fufficiently underftood for common purpofes, yet I do not 

 pretend to be qualified for details of any length." 



It has been already faid, that Governor King went himfelf to New 

 Zealand with Hoo-doo and Too-gee. The following are his remarks 

 on his voyage thither : 



" Having rounded the North Cape of New Zealand on the 12th 

 of November 1793, the fourth day after leaving Norfolk, we faw a 

 number of houfes and a fmall hippah on an ifland which lies off the 

 North Cape, and called by Too-gee, Moo de- Moo- too. Soon after, 

 we opened a very confiderable hippah, or fortified place, fituated on a 

 high round hill, juft within the cave, whence fix large canoes were 

 feen coming towards the fhip. As foon as they came within hail, Too- 

 gee was known by thofe in the canoes, which were foon increafed to 

 feven, with upwards of twenty men in each. They came alongfide 

 without any intreaty, and thofe who came on board were much re- 

 joiced to meet with Too-gee, whofe firft and earnefl inquiries were 

 after his family and chief. On thofe heads he received the moft 

 fatisfa&ory intelligence from a woman of the party who was a relar- 

 tion of his mother. His father and the chief were ftill inconfolabls 

 for his lofs : It was remarked, that, although there were upwards of a 

 hundred New Zealanders on board and alongfide, yet Too-gee conr 

 fined his careffes and converfation to his mother's relation, and one 

 or two chiefs, who were diftinguimed by the marks (a-mo-ko) on 

 their faces, and by the refpedful behaviour which was fhewn them 

 by the emokis (i. e. the working men) who paddled the canoes,, and 

 who at times were beaten mo ft unmercifully by the chiefs. To 

 thofe who, by Too-gee's account were epodis (fubaltern chiefs), and 

 well known to him, I gave fome chiffels, hand-axes, and other arti- 

 cles equally acceptable. A traffic foon commenced. Pieces of old 

 iron hoops were given in exchange for abundance of manufactured 

 flax, cloth, potoo-patoos, fpears, talc ornaments, paddles, fifh-hooks, 

 and lines. At feven in the evening they left us, and we made fail to 



run 



