i/9^0 OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 349 



" While I was preparing what I meant to give them, Too-gee (who 

 I am now convinced was a prieft) had made a circle of the New 

 Zealanders round him, in the centre of which was the old chief, and 

 recounted what he had feen during his abfence, At many paflages 

 they gave a fhout of admiration. Fearing that they doubted his ve- 

 racity when he told them that he had been only three days from Nor- 

 folk Iiland, he produced a cabbage, which he a flu red them- had been 

 cut only five days before from my garden. This convincing proof 

 produced a general fhout of furprife. 



"Every thing being now ready for their departure, our two friends 

 requeued that Ko-to-ko-ke might fee the foldiers exercife and fire. 

 To this I could have no objection, as the requeft came from them ;; 

 but took that opportunity of explaining to the chief, that he might 

 fee, by our treatment of him and his two countrymen, that it was 

 our wifh and intention to be good neighbours and friends, with all 

 Ea-hei-no-mawe; adding that thefe weapons were never ufed but: 

 when we were injured. 



" About one hundred and fifty of the New Zealanders were feated 

 on the larboard fide of the deck, and the detachment paraded on the 

 oppofite fide.. After going through the manual, and firing three vol- 

 lies, two great guns were fired, one loaded with a fmgle ball, and the.- 

 other with grape mot, which furprifed them greatly. 



" After this we feparated, Too-gee and Hoo-doo taking an af- 

 fectionate leave of every perfon on board, and reminding me of my 

 promife of vifiting them again; when, they faid, they would return^ 

 with me to Norfolk Ifland and take their families. 



" The venerable chief, after having taken great pains to pronounce 

 my name, and made me well acquainted with his, got into his canoe.. 

 0n putting off from the fhip, they were faluted with three cheers, 

 which they returned as well as they could, by Too-gee's directions. 

 Two hours after their departure we failed, and, after a pafl'age of five 

 days from New Zealand, and ten days abfence from Norfolk Illand, h 

 landed in. the afternoon of the i8th 0 



" The. 



