CHAP. XIX.J KAIPARA HARBOUR. 263 



Now hold fast 



That is it. 



Now let it emerge. 



Koiri, koiri, watiia. 



All together now, 



Pull, pull, pull ;. 



Dip deep, i, i, i, i. 



Very well ; all together ; 



Lie down ; twist it ; 



Let it go. 



Be strong, pull, pull, pull. 



We afterwards sat around the fires, and song 

 followed song until the night was far advanced. It 

 is not astonishing that savage life should possess 

 so many charms even for sober spirits. The naivete 

 of manners, the childlike expression of joy, innate 

 to people in a state of nature, vanishes before the 

 formalities of our civilization : the hospitable savage 

 is changed into a reckoning and deliberating mer- 

 chant ; the incumbrance of our clothing in a warm 

 climate makes him stiff and helpless ; and our com- 

 plicated food soon renders him unhealthy. Is he 

 the gainer or loser by this change ? 



Kaipara Harbour, into which the Wairoa and 

 other rivers fall, seems to me on account of the 

 quantity of timber-trees on the shores of the rivers, 

 the length of their navigable course, the extent of 

 the available alluvial land on their banks, and the 

 immediate neighbourhood of the seat of govern- 

 ment, Wai-te-mata to be deserving of an early 

 attention as a place where capital and labour may 

 be very profitably employed. 



