184 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. VU. 
and ready for sea in two days from her arrival ; but 
the want of wind kept her four days more, the Fife- 
shire staring her in the face as a lesson not to attempt 
starting in a calm. 
l^'^hile I was there, the Brilliant, of 300 tons, ar- 
rived from Twofold Bay with horses and cattle. Dr. 
Imlay himself was a passenger on board, having come 
to take a look at the settlements in New Zealand, and 
to place on a permanent footing the importation of his 
stock into the country. He was nmch pleased to find 
an old shipmate and friend in Captain Wakefield. 
It is a curious sight to see a large ship enter the 
haven under sail. The most favourable time to do 
this is with the full force of the flood, and against a 
working breeze that blows out of the harbour. Pass- 
ing rapidly between the Arrow and the Boulder Bank, 
she comes up head to wind as her jib-boom end is 
almost over your head while you stand on the beach 
just inside the gut, and she makes way on the starboard 
tack enough to shoot out of the tide, which has swept 
her half a mile up the harbour, into the eddy where 
she is to anchor. 
I only saw from a distance the valleys of the TVaimea 
and Moutere rivers, in which most of the cultivation 
near Nelson is now going on, as I had not time to 
explore any further than the immediate neighbour- 
hood of the town. I must again refer to the litho- 
graphic illustrations, which I have before mentioned, 
for very accurate and interesting representations of 
the town of Nelson and of its country district. 
Coal and limestone had already been found in large 
quantities on the shores of Massacre Bay ; and a coaster 
had brought some tons of each article into the harbour. 
A road was being made by the Company's labourers, 
round the foot of the dividing ridge, from the haven 
