94 CLOUDY BAY. [PART I. 



Nga-te-Motunga and Nga-te-Tama, still remained 

 at Port Nicholson. 



Up to the present time, nearly three years since 

 the purchase, there has not been a single serious 

 misunderstanding between the natives and the Eu- 

 ropean settlers ; and my hope that, by a prudent ma- 

 nagement and forbearing treatment, the evils would 

 be avoided which have everywhere else followed in 

 the train of English colonization, has not as yet 

 been disappointed : nor is it unworthy of remark, 

 that the tribes at Port Nicholson had had very 

 little intercourse with Europeans before our arrival 

 at that place, their only visitor having been a mis- 

 sionary from the Bay of Islands a short time before, 

 for the purpose of preventing the natives from con- 

 cluding a "treaty with the Company's agent, or, 

 rather, to secure the best parts of the land, not 

 indeed for the church, but merely for himself. 



We left Port Nicholson for Cloudy Bay on Octo- 

 ber the 4th, with a light northerly wind. When 

 we came outside the harbour we had squalls, and 

 afterwards a fine breeze from the north-west, which 

 was soon succeeded by a calm ; but a fresh breeze 

 springing up, we anchored in the afternoon at the 

 entrance to Cloudy Bay, We found there the 

 barque Honduras, of London, which had come from 

 a whaling establishment at Otago, on the eastern 

 coast of the middle island, and was completing her 

 cargo at Cloudy Bay. We stayed here until the 13th 

 of October, and then sailed for Te-awa-iti, in order 



