108 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. V. 
joyed a good look-out over to the White BluflP from 
the high neck of land above the houses. 
We had plenty of good fishing while here. A fish 
like the ling, some of which we caught weighing 
50 lbs., gave great sport, requiring half an hour's play to 
kill ; and some conger-eels also furnished amusement to 
parties who went out in the cutter to the reef at the 
entrance of the harbour. One of these enormous crea- 
tures, six feet long and as thick as a man's arm, floored 
everybody in the boat before a cut across his tail de- 
prived him of his strength. 
We had completed our letters on the 9th, and only 
waited for Barrett. On the 12th, the Honduras pro- 
ceeded to Te-awa-iti to take in oil and bone there. A 
small schooner, the Susannah Ann, arrived from Syd- 
ney a day or two before, to take the oil from the station 
of Mr. John, the Portuguese. 
On the 13th we sailed for Te-awa-iti, to look for 
Barrett. Arthur was again on board of us as pilot. 
As we ran along the seventeen miles of rugged and 
barren coast between the two places, he showed us 
some remarkable spots. The first promontory was called 
Run-under Point, from a boat having foundered near 
that spot while running in tow of a whale in stormy 
weather. A small bay, which sometimes affords shelter 
to the whale-boats when caught outside in a heavy gale 
of wind, is called Fighting Bay. Here a great naval 
engagement once took place between the canoes of Rau- 
peraka and his followers, and those of Bloody Jack, 
who was at the head of a predatory party of the Nga- 
hitau. Rauperaha had a narrow escape on this occa- 
sion ; only saving his life by leaving his mat in the hands 
of his inveterate enemy, who had seized him, and by 
diving until he got among his own canoes. He subse- 
