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in the interior, &c, was subsequently engraved by Arrow- 

 smith in a map of the colony. I have seen a copy of that 

 map here in Napier some thirty years ago. During the 

 Maori war in the interior under Sir George Whitmore my 

 original MS. map of those parts, containing my track, with 

 the villages, and rivers with their fords, was lent by me 

 under service to the Government, and was, I believe, copied 

 for them. 



I may also mention that I had left the Bay of Islands on 

 this journey in a small schooner on the 13th of October, and 

 landed at Te Kawakawa, in Hicks Bay, on the 18th of that 

 month, in a rising north-east gale. But when I say " landed " 

 there, I should also explain that, owing to the heavy surf, our 

 boat was soon capsized on entering the outer breakers, and 

 I had to swim for life, — soon, however, helped by the Maoris, 

 who had thronged the beaches expecting the disaster. This, 

 too, w T as caused by the foolhardiness of the captain of the 

 schooner, who persisted in leaving his ship, after coming to 

 anchor a long way out from land, he having some small cargo 

 to land there, although warned by the big white signal 

 flying at the newly-established mission-station that there was 

 no communication with the shore. I had also with me those 

 two young Maoris whom I had taken hence two years before, 

 and who had made with me my former long overland journey, 

 and whom I was now returning to their home and tribe. They 

 had warned the captain, through me, that there was no safe 

 landing there at this time, but all to no purpose. The captain 

 saved his big boat, with mast and oars (losing many smaller 

 things), and, returning hastily — a wiser man — to his ship, was 

 obliged to cut cable and run away to sea. From Hicks Bay 

 I again travelled on to Poverty Bay, as I did on the former 

 occasion, but this time incog, (through want of clothing and 

 tent and baggage, all such having been left on board of the 

 vessel), by which, however, I learnt a little more of the 

 Maoris. 



