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with nineteen others in a Avhale ship. A few natives came 

 off in their canoes, holding generally three or four persons, 

 being larger tlian at Wanga, where they rarely take more 

 tlian two men each. These natives seemed shy of us, 

 because it was here, a little way in the bush, that they 

 killed, a short time ago, one of tlie Bishop's boys, which 

 grieved his lordship very mucli. The antecedents of that 

 boy were those of the bush, and he was foolish enough to 

 talk of his former bush life, and hence his death, and he 

 was eaten afterwards, of course. One of the natives who 

 went on board the schooner, and knew the Bishop, asked 

 his lordship ' if lie was to be afraid of him this time.' The 

 Bishop told him ' he thought he had very good reason to be 

 so, and others also, for having killed his poor boy.' This 

 did not prevent the Bishop from going on shore the same 

 evening, and he had the gratification of ascertaining that 

 there was no necessity for visiting the whole people of the 

 village with punislnnent for the crime that had been com- 

 mitted, seeing that but two individuals were engaged in it. 



The next day I went on shore in a canoe which let in 

 water on all sides, and got thoroughly wet. I landed on 

 the banks of a small river at the end of the bay, on the 

 right, by the side of a large rock which, in all probability, 

 had broken away from the cliff on the other side of the 

 river. The river seems to wind round between the hills ; 

 the water was very thick, and the stream full from the 

 rains. There I found many of our men doing a little barter 

 with a great crowd of natives, men and women, who 



