Chap. VI. RETURN OF THE « GUIDE." 179 
On the 10th, a barque stood in to Motuomahanga, 
the outer island, and lowered a boat. The numerous 
signals which we made, however, did not attract her 
notice ; and she stood on to the northward after the 
boat had returned on board from a short excursion. 
This proved afterwards to be the Company's surveying- 
barque Cuba, on her way from Port Nicholson to 
Kawia. 
On the 13th, we made out another sail to the west- 
south-west. Barrett launched his whale-boat, and 
we boarded the old Guide about six miles off the 
islands. She had fortunately left a buoy to her first 
anchor ; and to this we fastened her in the evening. 
On the night of the storm she had ridden out the 
fury of the gale until about four o'clock in the morn- 
ing, with her last anchor. At that time the chain 
parted close to the ground, and she was in imminent 
danger. The crew, indeed, loudly expressed their in- 
tention of picking out a soft place, and running her 
stem on to the beach. 
Fortunately, Doddrey, Worser, and the captain and 
mate, had prepared themselves for this emergency, and 
had each undertaken a part of the necessary operations 
for getting her under way. The captain himself seized 
the wheel ; the others loosed the sails and paid out the 
chain; and a favourable shift in the wind allowed 
them to get an offing. Southerly gales outside had 
driven them as far north as the latitude of Kaipara, 
and prevented them from returning before to-day. i'- 
14th. — The natives came on board to-day, and after 
some hesitation on account of a desire for more fire- 
arms, agreed to sign the deed on the morrow. 
Feb. 15th. — This morning I took the deed, drawn 
up like the former ones, ashore. Barrett translated it, 
and explained its provisions. Forty-seven signatures 
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