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the Europeans. This is the nearest land to the North 
Island, here seventeen miles distant ; and it was not 
until we had got some offing that we saw Cape KoU' 
maru and the Brothers. The latter are two rocky 
islets, standing forty feet out of water at the distance of 
a mile from the main. As our eyes wandered across 
the Strait, they were met by Kapiti, Mana, and the 
adjacent mainland, the high lands about Cape Tera- 
witi, which is the nearest point to the Middle Island, and 
the coast on either side of Port Nicholson Bay, extend- 
ing about thirty miles from Terawiti to Cape Pal- 
liser. As both coasts recede from the narrowest part 
of the Strait, it is about thirty miles from the entrance 
of Te-awa-iti to that of Port Nicholson. As we drew 
under the high land east of Cape Terawiti, the north- 
west breeze blew fresh over the hills, and we flew along 
under all sail past the long reef of pointed rocks which 
lies off Sinclair Head. This is the bluff termination of 
a range of mountains called Rimarapa^ and lies about 
six miles from Terawiti. 
