Dusky Sound, designated "Dusky Bay," figures largely in the Records. That is in, a measure due to the fact Captain Cook's lengthened stay therein brought it prominently into notice. In a Parliamentary committee of 1838, the Hon. E. Barrington says:—"There is a settlement of 200 or 300 English, who are represented of late as sufficiently numerous to defend themselves against the natives at Queen Charlotte Sound, in Cook Strait. We hear also, on what I consider satisfactory authority, that there is forming a sort of nucleus for a very discreditable kind of establishment in Dusky Bay, which is to the south of the Southern Island again, so that the population is pouring in on every side, and completely out of the influence of the missionaries, who have been able, at anyrate, to keep them in some kind of check." What is here mentioned as a discreditable establishment alludes to