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outfit allowance from the Company, but was prevented 
at the last moment by unavoidable circumstances from 
carrying out his intentions. 
In the steerage were — Robert Doddrey, who had 
formerly visited some parts of the coast of New Zea- 
land in a trading schooner from Van Diemen's Land, 
and who was engaged as storekeeper and additional 
interpreter ; the second and third mates ; and Colonel 
Wakefield's servant, besides the steward and his cabin- 
boys. 
Petty officers and foremast hands, among whom 
were a New Zealander and a native of the Marquesas 
Islands, made up our total muster-roll to thirty-five 
souls. 
The Tory sailed remarkably well. We crossed the 
line, in 26^ 50' W. longitude, on the twenty-sixth day 
from Plymouth, passed the longitude of the Cape of 
Good Hope on the 10th of July, and saw the high 
land of New Zealand on the 16th of August, about 
noon. We established during the voyage a w^eekly 
manuscript newspaper, and a debating society. These 
recreations, and an ample supply of useful and inte- 
resting books, caused the time to pass cheerfully 
enough. Vocabularies of the Maori or New Zealand 
language were also constructed from Nayti's dictation ; 
and lessons to him in English spelling, many a deep 
game of chess, and an occasional battue of the alba- 
trosses and other marine birds, which abound in the 
high latitudes between the Cape of Good Hope and 
Van Diemen's Land, beguiled the leisure time. These 
battues partook of shooting and fishing; for some- 
times we baited large hooks with bits of pork, and 
caught the gigantic birds by the beak. I remember 
one day seeing twenty-eight live albatrosses on the 
deck together, many of them measuring twelve feet 
