From different persons, he had gotten nine or ten hatchets, and three or four times that number of large spike nails, besides a variety of other articles.

So far as these things might be deemed riches in New Zealand, he was undoubtedly become by far the most wealthy man in the whole country.
One employment of our voyagers, while in Dusky Bay, consisted in seal hunting, an animal which was found serviceable for three purposes.

The skins were made use of for rigging, the fat afforded oil for the lamps, and the flesh was eaten.

On the 24th, the captain, having five geese remaining of those he had brought with him from the Cape of Good Hope, went and left them at a place to which he gave the name of Goose Cove.

This place he fixed upon for two reasons; first, because there were no inhabitants to disturb them; and, secondly, because here was the greatest supply of proper food; so that he had no doubt of their breeding, hoped that in time they might spread over the whole country, to its eminent advantage.