Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.2): between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagles's circumnavigation of the globe

1835. XEW ZEALAND VIEW. 56S hardest part of the gale was over, it set to the south-west, at about the same rate. Both before and during these three days, I was struck by the precise similarity of the clouds, sky, peculiarities of wind, and weather, to what we had been accustomed to meet with off' the coast of Patagonia : and I may here remark that, througli- out the southern hemisphere, the weather, and the turn or suc- cession of winds, as well as their nature and prognostications,are remarkably uniform. On the 19th we made the northern hills of New Zealand ; but tantalized still by adverse winds, all the next day was spent in beating to windward, and not till the 21st could we succeed in obtaining access to the Bay of Islands. We were all a good deal disappointed by the view. After Otaheite, the northern part of New Zealand had, to our eyes, a very ordinary appearance. 2o2