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Departure from Sydney. 

 The scientific coijw. 



NEW ZEALAND. 



The wrietitiJle c«rps; Iteir pRSSaRO 

 from Sydney. 



CHAPTER XX. 

 NEW ZEALAND. 



DEPARTURE FROM SY »N KIT — PASSAGE TO NEW EE A LA V D— All HI V A T. AT THE BAY OP ISLANDS— M EKT I > t. Willi Till. 

 SCIENTIFIC CORKS — THEIR PASSAGE FROM SYDNEY— RAY OF ISLANDS— RIVER* WHICH FALL IX TO »T— PA'E OP 

 THE COUNTRY— ACTIVE VOLCANO — HOT IPRINO OF T Al A I M I — CR ATER OF FUERU A — DH. HCKERl NO** VISIT TO 

 HnKlAXGA— H1SSIOXABY I V M LINK M ENT AT PAH t A— KORCiR A Rl K A— ENGLISH POLKE MAGISTRATE AND ACTING 

 dOTERXOR— TREATY OF CESSION TO BXGLAND— CONDUCT OF TUB AMERICAN COS ACL— INSTALLATION Or TUB 

 LI EDTEX AXT-GOY KRNOR — OPINION OF THE CHIEFS IS RELATION TO THE TEE A TV — ARRIVAL til' ENGLISH 

 REVENUE OFFICERS— LAND CLAIMS— DUHTHENSOME TAXES AND TARIFF — THEIR EFFECT OS AMERICAS COM- 

 MK.HCE— EXPENSE OF THE NEW OOVERXMEXT— CASE OF JOHN SAC — II IS LETTER TO MR. WALDROS — 11 ETHER 

 REMARKS ON TITE TREATY OF CESSION— VIOLENT OAtE— ITS EXTENT AND ROTARY CH AR ACTER — PORE IGX RESI- 

 DENTS— HIGH PRICK OF LAND-MISSIONS— TABOO— FAB, OR PORT1 VIED TOWNS— D WE I LI NGS — TOJID — DRESS Of 

 THE NATIVES— THEIR STOREHOUSES— THEIR FOOD — THEIR ARMS AND ORNAMENTS— KING I OH ARE— M AUFARAVA 

 —CHARLEY POUARX — FOM A RES WA RS— CEREMONY OF HIS RETURN— UIS MEANNESS — POPULATION OF NEW ZEA- 

 LAND— VISIT TO WANGARaHA — POLITENESS OP KO-TOWATOWA — WANfiARARA HAY — CHARACTER OP THE NEW 

 XKA LANDERS— THEIR PERSONA L APPEARANCE — TRADITION IN RELATION TO II! I. Ill OR ZO J N — TA TTOOIID HEADS 

 —CANNIBALISM — CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OP THE N ATI VK1— X ATI V E DANCER— MUSIC— CHATHAM ISLAND- 

 CHART OF TUB BAT OF ISLANDS— MR. COCTUOUY'i PASSAGE FROM STDNET— HIS ACCOUNT OF MOUNT EG MONT- 

 OP FORT COOPER — WAKE OF ROUOLUA — PORT LEVY— KORAK IBARVRU— PIGEON BAY — CAPE CAMPBELL AND SNOWY 

 PEAKS — CLOUDY B A Y— BOB!) LUA— 11 A BITS OF THE NATIVES, AND PREVAILING WINDS AT CLOUDY BAY— CUM ATX 

 OP NEW SEALASD— DISEASES— SOtL — CULTIVATION — VEGETABLE P RODUCTJONS— TI U BER— CA NOES— UP ADRVTEDS 

 — BIRDS COMMERCE. 



H.iYiM; replenished our storeB of provisions, we 

 took, with much regret, a Final leave of our friends 

 :i1 Sydney. The Vineemics w eiurhed am-hor, ami 

 at 3 p.m. on the 10th March wo discharged our 

 pilot, and hade adieu to these hospitable shores. 

 The Peacock, not having completed her repaint, 

 was left at Sydney for a few days, with orders to 

 follow ii j to Tonga taboo. 



On reaching a distance of thirty miles from the 

 coast, we riLJiiin found a difference, of three decrees 

 in the temperature of the water, and experienced 

 the effects of a stroug current towards the south. 

 The wind was from the northward and east- 

 ward. 



Ou the 23rd wo Hpt>ke the French whale-ship 

 Ville do Bordeaux, in want of provisions, wliicli uc 

 supplied her. Slie had been out three years, and 

 had on hoard four thousand barrels of oil. The 

 crew was reduced to bread and water, and the 

 vessel was apparently in a bad condition in other 

 respects. 



At daylight on the KOth, we made Cape Brett, 

 and after groping our way through the dark, into 

 the Hay of Islands, anchored at In p.m. in the 

 Kavta-Kaw* river, opposite tho residence of Mr. 

 Cleudon, the American consul. Mere I had the 

 satisfaction to find the Porpoise and Flying-Fish, 

 and received the reports .if their cruises ; they 

 were nil «cl| «>n hoard. The former vessel had 

 arrived a few days, and the latter about three 

 weeks, before us We were also gratified with 

 the receipt of letters from the United States, 

 Every exertion was made to shorten the duration 

 of our stay in New Zealand, and the necessary in- 

 struments weru landed without delay. 



Here also we met all the scientific gentlemen, 

 — who, as has been stated, had been left at 

 Sydney when the squadron sailed upon the 

 antarctic cruise, — anxiously awaiting our ar- 

 rival. 



They had been forced to remain inactive at 

 Sydney, in consequence of a change in the desti- 

 nation of the vessel in which they had first taken 

 their passages, and by this vexatiuus delay, had 

 not only been prevented from pursuing further 

 researches in New South Wales, but had lost 

 time that ini^ht have been advantageously em- 

 ployed in New Zealand. They finally succeeded 

 in finding an opportunity of reaching the Bay of 

 Islands, in the British brig Victoria. 



After leaving Sydney in this vessel, a sea was 

 shipped, which, besides doing other mischief, en- 

 tered at the cabin-windows, and tilled the ehrono- 

 uieter-box with salt water; hi consequence of 

 which the master considered it necessary to put 

 hark, in order tit exchange the injured time-piece 

 for annther. She accordingly anchored again in 

 Port Jackson. 



On the 7th February, they had u beautiful exhi- 

 bition of the aurora australis : the coruscations 

 were of a straw-coloured light, reaching nearly to 

 the zenith in the southern sky, and lasting from 

 seven until ten o'clock. A noddy lighted on the 

 brig, and remained on board many days ; so 

 tame was it that it even suffered itself to be 

 handled. 



On the Ifjth, when they had performed about 

 half the passage, they had another exhibition of 

 tho aurora, much like the former * after which 

 they experienced a gale of wind of five days' dura- 

 tion, (m the 2lst, they were enabled again to 

 make sail, and, on the 23rd, they made the North 

 Cape. A gale then came on from the eastward, 

 and they had a narrow escape from shipwreck 

 while running down the land. On the 24th, they 

 dropped anchor at Kororarika, about three miles 

 above which place they found the United States 

 consul, Mr. t'leiidon, at Oruotu Point. 



From the splendid panorama of Mr. Burford, I 

 had pictured the Buy of Islands to myself as a place 



