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day, we availed ourfelves of it, to get up the top-mails and 
yards, and to fix up the rigging. And, having now finifhed 
moil of our heavy work, I fet out the next morning to take 
a view of the Sound. I firft went to the Weft point, where 
I found a large village, and, before it, a very fnug har¬ 
bour, in which was from nine to four fathoms water, over 
a bottom of fine fand. The people of this village, who 
were numerous, and to moft of whom I was well known, 
received me very courteoufly; every one prefling me to go 
into his houfe, or rather his apartment; for feveral families 
live under the fame roof. I did not decline the invitations; 
and my hofpitable friends, whom I vifited, fpread a mat for 
me to lit down upon, and fhewed me every other mark of 
civility. In moft of the houfes were women at work, mak¬ 
ing dreftes of the plant or bark before mentioned, which 
they executed exactly in the fame manner that the New 
Zealanders manufacture their clotfn Others were occu¬ 
pied in opening fardines. I had feen a large quantity of 
them brought on fhore from canoes, and divided by mea- 
lure amongft feveral people, who carried them up to their 
houfes, where the operation of curing them by fmoke-dry- 
ing is performed. They hang them on fmall rods; at firft, 
about a foot from the fire; afterward they remove them 
higher and higher, to make room for others, till the rods, 
on which the fifh hang, reach the top of the houfe. When 
they are completely dried, they are taken down and packed 
clofe in bales, which they cover with mats. Thus they are 
kept till wanted; and they are not a difagreeable article of 
food. Cod, and other large fifh, are alfo cured in the fame 
manner by them; though they fometimes dry thefe in the 
open air, without fire. 
From this village I proceeded up the Weft fide Of the 
Sound. 
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