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preseiits of some mats and a handsome stone viarc. He was 

 invited, moreover, to select a wife from among the marriage- 

 able young ladies of the tribe. His choice fell upon Aimy's 

 daughter, Eshore ; whereupon Aimy insisted on his taking her 

 younger sister, Epecka, with her. 



Some time after this he took a long journey with the chief 

 Aimy, attended by a suitable retinue. In about a month 

 they arrived at a place called Taranake, on the coast of Cook 

 Strait, where they were received by Otago, a great chief, who 

 had come from near the Soutli Cape. Here he saw an English- 

 man named James Mowry, who was the sole survivor of a 

 boat's crew which had been cut off by the natives, had lived 

 eight years among them, and had married Otago's daughter. 

 This man had been well tattooed and made a chief, and had 

 become so thoroughly at home with his people that he had no 

 desire to leave them. He had heard, Eutherford says, of the 

 capture of the "i\gnes," and gave him an account of the 

 deaths of Smith and Watson. " On leaving Taranake," the 

 story continues, " we took our way along the coast, and after 

 a journey of six weeks arrived at the East Cape, where we 

 met with a great chief named Bomurry, belonging to the Bay 

 of Islands. He told us that he resided in the neighbourhood 

 of Mr. Kendal, the missionary. He had about five hundred 

 warriors with him, and several war-canoes. . . . They 

 had plundered and murdered nearly every person that lived 

 between the East Cape and the Eiver Thames ; and the whole 

 country dreaded tlie name of Bomurry. . . . He and his 

 followers having taken leave of us and set sail in their canoes, 

 we also left the East Cape the day following, and proceeded 

 on our journey homewards, travelling during the day and 

 encamping at night in the woods. In this way we arrived in 

 four days at our village." 



In the course of time another important expedition was 

 undertaken, the account of which shall be given mainly in 

 Rutherford's own words : " One day a messenger arrived 

 from a neighbouring village with the news that all the chiefs 

 for miles round were about to set out in three days for a place 

 called Kipara, near the source of the River Thames, and dis- 

 tant about two hundred miles from our village. The mes- 

 senger brought also a request from the other chiefs to Aimy 

 to join them, along with his warriors ; and he replied that he 

 would meet them at Kipara at the time appointed. We 

 understood that we were to be opposed at Kipara by a num- 

 ber of chiefs from the Bay of Islands and the River Thames, 

 according to an appointment that had been made with the 

 chiefs in our neighbourhood." After describing the prepara- 

 tions for the journey, the narrative continues: "We were 

 five weeks in reaching Kipara, where we found about eleven 



