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already been hoisted on the flagstaff upon Mount Victoria, announ- 
cing to the inhabitants the arrival of an Austrian man-of-war, and 
at 2 o’clock p. m. Captain Burgess came on board as pilot. I had 
no idea at that time , that I should make many a trip yet on those 
waters in the Captain’s neat, fast-sailing cutter, and that to this 
same Captain Burgess, who tendered us so hearty a welcome, say- 
ing that we had long since been announced and expected in Auck- 
land, — T should be indebted afterwards for many a kind favour 
received at his hands. 
Although but a few miles distant from the harbour, the vessel 
laboured long and hard against the contrary wind to pass up the 
narrow channel between the Rangitoto and the North shore into the 
Waitemata. The nearer we approached, the more enlivening was 
the scenery. Boats came rowing up to us; natives paddled along 
in their canoes, and from the deck of a ship just leaving the har- 
bor we were hailed with loud shouts of welcome, as she passed 
close by us; but it was not until 6 o’clock p. m. that we arrived 
at the anchoring place in front of the city. 
We met five other ships in the harbour; alongside of them now 
lay the Novara, the largest man-of-war that had ever anchored here. 
The whole population of Auckland appeared to have gathered to- 
gether on the shore, when our frigate cast anchor, firing twenty one 
salutes in honour of the British flag upon New Zealand. The salutes 
were responded to from the fort. The Governor bade the expedi- 
tion through his secretary and adjutant a most hearty welcome; 
messengers arrived to hail our coming also in the name of the 
colonists and inhabitants of Auckland; and the very first reception 
betokened that genuine cordiality, that amiability and complaisance 
shown to the expedition in so eminent a degree by the generous 
inhabitants of Auckland, and which I met with every where among 
the colonists with whom I chanced to become acquainted on my 
subsequent wanderings. 
