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establishments on shore must either be broken up altogether, or trans- 

 ferred to other places, at a great loss of outlay and capital. Our 

 whalers are now prevented from resorting to the New Zealand ports, 

 or fishing on the coast, by the tonnage duty, port charges, &c. ; are 

 denied the privilege of disposing of any thing in barter, and obliged to 

 pay a duty on American articles of from ten to five hundred per cent. 

 The expenses of repairs have so much increased, that other places 

 must be sought for the purpose of making them. The timber and 

 timber-lands are exclusively claimed as belonging to Her Majesty. 

 Thus have our citizens been deprived of a fishery yielding about three 

 hundred thousand dollars annually in oil. 



Governor Hobson's proclamation will be found in Appendix XXXI. 



The expenses of this new government were estimated for the year 

 1841 at £50,922 3s. 4d., sterling, which is about equal to £10 for each 

 man, woman, and child ; for the whole foreign population on all the 

 islands, is not supposec^o be more than five thousand. The great 

 precipitancy with w 7 hich the islands were taken possession of, is said 

 to have been owing to the fears entertained that the French intended 

 forming a colony on the southern island in like manner. 



After my arrival I gave the men liberty. Among the first who 

 obtained it was John Sac, a native of New Zealand, and of the neigh- 

 bourhood of this bay. His native name was Tuatti, and he was a 

 petty chief. He had been some time absent from his country, and had 

 sailed in the Expedition from the United States, was an excellent 

 sailor, a very good fellow, and had been enthusiastic in the praise of 

 his country and countrymen. According to him, there was nothing 

 like New Zealand ; and under this feeling he hired a canoe to take 

 him on shore, for which his countryman charged him three dollars, 

 although half a dollar would have been an exorbitant price. He 

 landed at Tibbey's, and being desirous of going to his friends, wished 

 to engage a canoe to take him about ten miles up one of the rivers, 

 the Kawa-Kawa, where they resided. For this conveyance he was 

 asked £2, nearly a month's pay. Poor John could not submit to this 

 extortion, and was found sitting on a log, greatly mortified, depressed, 

 and incensed at such treatment. 



After John returned on board, he made a proposition to Mr. Wal- 

 dron, in a letter, to purchase the island which he called Motugee, with 

 the territory of Muckatoo, belonging to his father and family, and ex- 

 pressing his belief that they were all opposed to the encroachments of 

 the English, and were determined not to part with their land to them. 



Although the land about the Bay of Islands is much cut up by 

 indentations, yet from this circumstance it affords many pretty views, 



