signof visiting the more remote parts of 
the coast to the South, hoping there to 
effect the ulterior objects of his voyage. 
. Here, then, terminated Mr. Cunning- 
ham's connexion with His Majesty's Ship 
. Buffalo. Thus left alone, without a single 
European as friend or servant, on the shores 
of a harbour densely inhabited by savages, 
who had, but a few years before, massacred 
the crew of the Ship Boyd, and more re- 
cently had seized upon the houses and 
property of the! Wesleyan Missionaries, 
- who, after much fatigue, privation, and in- 
sult had effected a settlement among them 
. thus left alone, Mr. Cunningham was 
immediately assured by the natives, that 
his life was perfectly safe with them, as 
. they knew he was the brother of a man, 
who had, some seven years previously, 
lived and travelled with them in their na- 
tive woods, and who, on taking his farewell 
leave, distributed among them many little 
tokens of his regard for them, as well as 
proofs of the high esteem in which he held 
men who, although savages, nay, even 
. cannibals, possessed generous minds, and 
SOR In February 1827, these excellent and highly ex- 
“mplary persons were obliged by the natives to retire 
: ey from the beautiful valley in which they 
, 5 t I! i d p established 
themselves, The savages forcibly took possession of 
e 
‘lie - There, as if actuated by one common emo- 
» they all turned to take a last farewell look at the 
avages, excited by wild exultation, amidst the 
ton they had scattered around. Their 2om- 
Ai y 4 4.25 Aia a 
e and 
had cost them many a long day's toil to rear, 
Ma etos. they now beheld a mass of bur 
s » Fr is scene, too grievous to be long 
Pon, they turned, and with uplifted hands and 
"de their onward path to the Bay of 
» in silence and in tears! 
THE LATE MR. RICHARD CUNNINGHAM. 
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powerful intellectual faculties. The sub- 
ject of our little memoir discovered at an 
early period, that his name, which the New 
Zealanders called Canni-nama, was a pass- 
port, a perfect safeguard to him wherever 
he rambled. 
With confidence, therefore in, and aided 
by, these grateful people, Richard Cunning- 
ham commenced his botanical labours on 
the hills, around the Harbour and Valley 
of Wangaroa. In the woods he first be- 
held the only Palm yet known to exist in 
New Zealand, Areca sapida (Soland.), and 
there he gathered specimens of a new ge- 
nus of Santalacee, which he named ‘from 
the natives, Mida, as also samples of se- 
veral plants of Cunoniacee, of the Linnean 
genus Weinmannia, and others closely al- 
lied to it. In these dark recesses, was dis- 
covered a slender tree, of remarkable ha- 
bit, having a flower that shows its close 
affinity with Brexia, a genus of M. Aubert 
du Petit Thouars, from which, however, it 
is essentially distinct in the structure of 
the oyarium, which has, in each cell, two 
collateral ovules. Quintinia, a genus of 
M. Alph. De Candolle, closely related to 
Escallonia and the only published species, 
a native of New South Wales, has another 
species in these rich woods, where also 
some Pittospora, quite unknown to Bota- 
nists, further rewarded the researches of our 
enterprizing traveller. Deep in the glens 
or ravines, where great shade and perpetual 
moisture reign, he beheld with delight the 
richness of the Filices of these regions, of 
which he gathered many a specimen. In 
those secluded dells, which are never 
warmed by a genial solar ray, he found 
several beautiful Epilobia, and in the rocky 
beds of small brooks, and growing below 
the surface of those rapid gurgling streams, 
was observed that charming little plant of 
Orchidee, an Acianthus, first seen by his 
brother in 1826, bearing its remarkable 
flowers. The skirts of these woods were 
overhung with those species of Clematis, 
which had been detected by Sir Joseph 
Banks, in the first voyage of Cook, blend- 
ed with two kinds of Rubus, remark- 
able for the elongated clusters in which 
