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Started at 5 a.m. with Mr. W.B. Baker, Junr. for Turanganui; where I met an old deformed woman, shrunk up from age; who had seen Capt. Cook. She was named Hine Kapu. She gave an account of a native, named Rakau, having been killed by Cook's party; and another wounded. At the time she describes herself to have been 16 years old. She is quite clear in intellect, and retentive in memory, describing minutely every small circumstance connected with Capt. Cook's visit. Mr. Dunlop, nephew of the Terrineat, the great dry salter at Glasgow,

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