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tempt to exact toll from the European coast-cruisers entering the 
harbour , and tribute from the Europeans settled among them. The 
original tribes have been here also dislodged and supplanted by 
Waikato-tribes. The present inhabitants belong to the tribes Nga- 
timahutu, N gatim ania pot o' and Ngatihikairo. 
I was taken over by the ferry-man to Takatahi on the 
Southside of the harbour , where I lodged with Messrs. Yates, 
making excursions thence in various directions for the benefit of 
geological studies. Close by lived an English custom-house officer, 
Mr, Schultz; and we were always sure of passing a pleasant evening. 
While, upon an excursion from Takatahi along the strand in 
the direction of the Rangitaiki Bay towards Southhead , I was ex- 
amining more closely the rocky banks of the shore, consisting of 
steep-rising banks of shale and sandstone , which gradually slope 
towards East, I had the pleasure of discovering the first New Zea- 
land Ammonites. But notwith- 
standing a long and tedious search 
I had to be content with two spe- 
cimens, both belonging to the same 
species. I have called it Ammoni- 
tes Novoseelandicus. It has its nearest 
relatives in European forms belong- 
ing to the Neocomien. A second 
fossil of very frequent occurrence 
here, a large ribbed Inoceramus , 
I called after my friend Haast 
Inoceramus Haasti. It was evident, 
that these shales belong to the 
Ammonites Novoseelandicus from Kawhia same formation as the Belemnite- 
bearing beds on the Waikato; yet 
I searched, in vain, for Belemnites. I Avas the more surprised, 
therefore, to discover a rich locality of Belemnites, on a second 
excursion in an opposite direction, up the Waiharakeke Channel, 
at the Ahuahu Point on the Southside of the channel , not far from 
the Wesleyan Mission station. The cliffs are here almost 40 feet 
