Identifier: journalofresear01darw (find matches)
Title: Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of H.M.S. 'Beagle,' under the command of Captain Fitz Roy
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
Subjects: Beagle Expedition (1831-1836) Natural history Geology Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ered as a hardship.I heard of one poor wretch who, during hostilities, ran awayto the opposite party ; being met by two men, he was imme-diately seized ; but as they could not agree to whom he shouldbelong, each stood over him with a stone hatchet, and seemeddetermined that the other at least should not take him awayalive. The poor man, almost dead with fright, was only savedby the address of a chiefs wife. We afterwards enjoyed apleasant walk back to the boat, but did not reach the ship tilllate in the evening. December ^otJi.—In the afternoon we stood out of the Bayof Islands, on our course to Sydney. I believe we were allglad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. 458 NEW ZEALAND CHAP. XVIII Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicitywhich is found at Tahiti ; and the greater part of the Englishare the very refuse of society. Neither is the country itselfattractive. I look back but to one bright spot, and that isWaimate, with its Christian inhabitants.
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HIPPAH, NEW ZEALAND.

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