IN NEW ZEALAND. 5 
species will be found, I promise myself the pleasure of going 
* over my collection and culling for you specimens therefrom ; 
which will not, I trust, be considered altogether unworthy of 
a place in your valuable Herbarium. 
I have, I confess, hitherto postponed doing so in hopes 
of receiving some Botanical works of reference from England. 
I will not, however, delay any longer, choosing rather to 
trust to your charity to cover my numerous and egregious 
errors, than by waiting a still further indefinite period, pro- 
crastinate the pleasure which you, as a Botanist and a true 
lover of the science, will, I well know, experience on the re- 
ceipt of the plants. 
As I may possibly have it in my power to make a few 
remarks, en passant, on the Natural History, Geology, As- 
pect, and Inhabitants of the districts which I traversed, I 
have decided upon throwing my observations into the form 
ofa Journal; by which, too, you may the better be able to 
ascertain, in some degree at least, the Botanical Geography 
and relative situation of those parts. 
On Friday, November 19, 1841, I E TE at the Bay 
of Islands, in the schooner Columbine for the East Cape, 
(lat. 37° 7”) and, on the evening of Monday the 22nd, 
landed at Warekahika (Hick’s Bay), a small bay between 
Cape Runaway and the East Cape. The surf being very 
high on the beach, and the captain of the schooner wishing 
to proceed on his voyage (to Poverty Bay) with as little 
delay as possible, the wind too being fair, I was obliged to 
scramble on shore through the breakers as expeditiously as I 
could. In the course of the evening I was not a little cha- 
grined to find, that the package containing the whole of my 
specimen paper, &c. &c., had, in the hurry of disembark- 
ing, been left behind on board of the vessel, which was now 
rapidly receding beyond the horizon! I had landed at this 
place five years’before in my former visit to these parts. 
Although night was fast closing around me, (and I felt very 
much exhausted, having had three days of fasting through 
excess of sea-sickness), I noticed growing on the sand-hills 
