THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 
125 
On the 15th, I made an excurfton in my boat to look for 1777. 
grafs, and vifited the Hippah, or fortified village at the i ^ Febmar y- | 
South Weft point of Motuara, and the places where our Saturday 15. 
gardens had been planted on that illand. There were no 
people at the former; hut the houfes and pallifades had 
been rebuilt, and were now in a ftate of good repair; and 
there were other evident marks of its having been inha¬ 
bited not long before. It would be unnecefiary, at prefent, 
to give a particular account of this Hippah, fufftcient notice 
having been taken of it in the Account of my firft Voyage, 
to which I refer *; and to the annexed drawing, which re- 
prefents part of the infide of the village, and will convey a 
better idea of it, than any written defcription. 
When the Adventure arrived firft at Queen Charlotte’s 
Sound, in 1773 t, Mr. Bayly fixed upon this place for mak¬ 
ing his obfervations ; and he, and the people with him, at 
their leifure hours, planted feveral fpots with Englifli gar¬ 
den feeds. Not the leaft veftige of thefe now remained. It 
is probable that they had been all rooted out to make room 
for buildings, when the village was reinhabited : for, at all 
the other gardens then planted by Captain Furneaux, al¬ 
though now wholly over-run with the weeds of the coun¬ 
try, we found cabbages, onions, leeks, purflain, radifhes, 
muftard, &:c. and a few potatoes. Thefe potatoes, which 
were firft brought from the Cape of Good Hope, had been 
greatly improved by change of foil; and, with proper cul¬ 
tivation, would be fuperior to thofe produced in moft other 
countries. Though the New Zealanders are fond of this 
root, it was evident that they had not taken the trouble to 
plant a fingle one (much lefs any other of the articles which 
* Hawkefworth’s Collection, Vol. ii. p. 395, &c, 
f Cook’s Voyage, Vol. i, p. 120. 
we 
