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Some acount of New Zealand

bogs which last land it seems however rather to prefer as I have always seen it in such places of a larger size than any where else

When first we came ashore we imagind the countrey to be much better peopled than we afterwards found it  concluding from the Smoaks that we saw that there were inhabitants very far inland  which indeed in Poverty bay & the bay of plenty  which are much the best peopled parts of the countrey that we have seen  may yet be the case  in all the other parts we have been in we have however found the sea coast only inhabited & that but sparingly  insomuch that the number of inhabitants seem to bear no kind of proportion to the size of the countrey which they possess & this probably is owing to their frequent wars. besides this the whole Coast from Cape Maria Van Diemen to Point  Mount Egmont & seven eights of the Southern Island seems totaly without people

The men are of the size of the larger Europeeans  Stout  Clean Limnd & active  fleshy but never fat as the lazy inhabitants of the South Sea Isles are  vigorous nimble & at the same time Clever in all their excersizes  I have seen

 

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