To one chief he gave two goats, a male and female, with a kid; and to another two pigs, a boar and a sow.
Although he had obtained a promise from both these chiefs, that they would not kill the animals which had been presented to them, he could not venture to place any great reliance upon their assurances.

It was his full intention, on his present arrival in Queen Charlotte's Sound, to have left not only goats and hogs, but sheep, together with a young bull and two heifers.

The accomplishment, however, of this resolution depended either upon his finding a chief, who was powerful enough to protect and keep the cattle, or upon his meeting with a place where there might be a probability of their being concealed from those who would ignorantly attempt to destroy them.

Neither of these circumstances happened to be conformable to his wishes.

At different times he had left to New Zealand ten or a dozen hogs, besides those which had been put on shore by Captain Furneaux.