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work to make wooden hinges. They were generally 
large^ and^ when attached to a light thin door^ looked 
remarkably clumsy : but they were made with great 
industry and care^ and the joints very neatly fitted. A 
man would sometimes be a fortnight in making a single 
pair of hinges. After allj they were easily broken^ and 
made a most unpleasant noise every time the door was 
opened or shut. 
In our walks through the native settlementSj we were 
often amused at the state in which we found the houses 
occupied by their proprietors. Some appeared with 
only the walls on the outside plastered^ others with 
both sides plastered | some having their doors and 
window-shutters fixed^ others with a low fence only 
across the door-way | some with grass spread over the 
whole floor^ while others had a portion boarded suffi¬ 
ciently large to contain their sleeping-mats at night. 
A few, whose dwellings were completely finished, in¬ 
habited them with all the conscious satisfaction attend¬ 
ing the enjoyment of what had cost them long and 
persevering labour. All confessed that the new kind of 
houses were better than the old : that when the weather 
was warm, they could have as much air as was agreeable; 
and when the night was cold and the wind high, or 
the rain drifting, they had not, as formerly, to rise and 
move their beds, or secure their clothing from wet, 
but could sleep on, sheltered from the influence of the 
elements without. 
This was the state of the settlement in Hualiine when 
visited by Captain Gambier, of H. M. ship Dauntless, 
Captain Elliot, and other naval officers, whom I had the 
pleasure of meeting there. The account of the settlement 
given by the former, and the emotions excited in his own 
