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with a wrought border, under which was a kind of petticoat, made of a cloth called.Aooree Waow ; his ears were decorated with teeth and pieces of green Hone.
On the 14th of February, about fixty Indians in four double canoes, came within aHone’s call of the fhip, which they beheld with furprife. Tupia endeavoured to per-fuade them to approach nearer, which they refufed,and made toward the fhore, but didnot reach it till after'it was dark. From the behaviour of thefe people, the place fromwhence they came was called the Illand of Looker’s-on. They had various winds andleas till the 4th of March, when they faw feveral whales and feals. On the 9th theyfaw a ledge of rocks, and foon afterwards another ledge, three leagues from the Ihore,which they paffed to the north during the night, and difcovered the others under theirbow at day-break. Thus they had a narrow efcape from deftrudtion; and thefe ledgesof rocks were denominated Traps, from their being adapted to entrap the unwary.
In the morning they failed northward, and on the day following, difcovered a barrenrock, about a mile in circumference, very high, and five leagues from the main land.This was called Solander’s Illand. On the 13th they difcovered a bay, which containsfeveral illands, behind which, if there be depth of water, there mull be Ihelter fromall winds. Captain Cook called this Dulky-Bay, and it is remarkable for having fivehigh peaked rocks laying off it, which look like the thumb and four fingers of a man’shand ; whence it was denominated Point Five Fingers.
They had now almolt paffed the whole of the north-well coaft of Tovy Poenam-moo; the face of the country afforded nothing worth notice, but a ridge of rocks ofa ftupendous height, which Dr. Hawkefworth defcribes as “ totally barren and naked,except where they are covered with fnow, which is to be feen in large patches in manyparts of them, and has probably lain there ever fince the creation of the world; aprofpett more rude, craggy, and defolate .than this country affords from the fea can-not poffibly be conceived ; for as far inland as the eye can reach, nothing appears but.the fummits of rocks, which Hand fo near together, that, inftead of vallies, there areonly fiffures between them.”
By the 27th they had failed round the whole country, and determined to departfrom the coaft, as foon as they had taken in a flock of water. For this purpofe thecaptain went alhore in the long-boat, and found an excellent watering-place, and aproper birth for the fhip; which being moored, they began filling their calks, whil ethe carpenter and his crew were employed in cutting wood. A council of the officerswas now held, as to the paffage they Ihould take to England ; when it was refolved toreturn by the Fall Indies, and with that view to fteer for the eall coaft of New H°*'land, and then follow the direction of that coaft to the northward.
This refolution being taken, they failed at day-break, on Saturday, March 31, 1 IT 0 ’and taking their departure from an eaftern point, which they had feen on the 23 jthey called it Cape Farewell. The bay from which they failed was named AdmiraltyBay, and the two capes thereof Cape Stephens, and Cape Jackfon, the names of t ethen Secretaries to the Board of Admiralty. c
Abel Janfen Tafmen, a Dutchman, was the firft European that made a difcovery 0New Zealand , to which he gave the name of Staaten Land, that is, the land of * eStates-General. Tafmen never went on Ihore, as the Indians attacked him foon aftche came to an anchor, in the bay to which he gave the name of Murderers Bay : * 11was in December 1642. _ «
The fituation of thefe illands is between 34 0 and 48° of fouth latitude, and t 1and 194 0 of weft longitude. The natives call the northern illand Eaheinonum^ >and the fouthernmoft Tovy Poenammoo. I7P
Eaheinomauwe*