Smith. — Captain Dumont D'Urville's Visit i?i 1827. 431 



small boats to land. It is the same with Otea, of which the coast is even 

 steeper, cut up with gullies, and often devoid of vegetation ; nevertheless, 

 ships would probably find shelter under the little islands situated near the 

 larger one. At two or three miles to the south of the west cape of Otea, 

 which we named Cape Krusenstern, is a little group of bare rocks, which at 

 a distance have the appearance of canoes under sail, which caused us to 

 give it that name. 



3rd March. — A light breeze from the S.W. having arisen, we profited 

 by it to advance on our route towards the north. At midnight, being then 

 about three miles to the east of the island Moko-Hinou [Mokohinau, also 

 Poko-hinau], I laid to to await daylight. Afterward I steered as much west 

 as possible, to regain the coast near Wangari, to continue the explorations 

 ended some days before near that point. But the wind remained in the 

 west, and I was reduced all day to beat to windward to approach the 

 coast 



[We may leave the " Astrolabe " here, with the hope of being able to 

 take up the narrative of her visit to the Bay of Islands on another occasion. 



[With respect to the Natives seen at Tamaki by D'Urville, these were 

 members of the Ngati-Paoa Tribe, who originally owned all that district. 

 D'Urville did not, as might be expected, get the exact relationship of the 

 chieis whom he met there. Te Haupa (or Kaiwaka), a great chief of that 

 tribe, was a son of Toto-ka-rewa, as was Tawhiti (or Waero). Rangi is not 

 known, unless he was Tawhiti's son Rangi-pua. These people had a few 

 years previously been driven from their homes by Nga-Puhi, under Hongi, 

 who had inflicted a disastrous defeat on them at the taking of the pa, 

 Mauinaina, situated just across Mokoia basin, to the south of Panmure, 

 in 1821. The people that D'Urville saw only visited their old homes 

 occasionally to procure fish, &c., for they had migrated to Waikato in 

 order to avoid the constant raids of Nga-Puhi. A few months after 

 D'Urville's departure from the Tamaki, the expedition that he saw at 

 Whangarei, under Rangi-tuke, met the Ngati-Paoa just inside Tamaki 

 Heads, and a great battle ensued, in which Rangi-tuke and all but about 

 twenty of his followers were killed. The Ngati-Paoa in this case were 

 assisted by the Ngati-Tipa, of Waikato Heads. All the details of these 

 troublous times will be found in " Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century."] 



Note 16. — M. Lottix's Journey to Manukau. 



.... At 9.30 a.m. I left in the whaleboat with MM. Guilbert,. 

 Gaimard, and Faraguet. We were about to ascend the Wai-Mogoia and 

 verify the assertion of the Natives who affirmed that in that part New 

 Zealand could be crossed in a few instants, and then we should arrive at 

 the sea which bathes the west coast. 



At 11 a.m. we entered the river. Above its mouth, confined by a tongue 

 of sand, it forms a large basin of a mile and a half in width by two in length, 

 where the water is salt ; and beyond that, at low water, banks of mud appear, 

 obstructing its course, and reducing it to a sinuous channel, of which the 

 width varies from 50 to 200 toises, and is only navigable by small boats. 



By noon we had crossed the first basin, and the water became drinkable. 

 The sinuosities of the river caused us to pass near a village, or sleeping- 

 place {moemoe), situated on the right-hand shore, and named Ourouroa 

 [Ururoa]. An immense quantity of fish was dr^'iug in the air, extended 



