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to have been destined by Nature for the rough work of a primi- 
tive settlement upon New Zealand. During the 19 years of his 
sojourn upon New Zealand, he had acquired considerable wealth 
by trading in corn and cattle, and, radiant with proud self-con- 
sciousness, he conducted me through his splendid orchard and vege- 
table garden, thence through a poultry-yard teeming with chickens, 
ducks and geese, and finally to his meadows and pastures, where 
horses, cattle, sheep and pigs bore testimony of a considerable pro- 
perty. He expressed the wish, that my artist, Mr. Koch, would 
paint his house and garden, with the liberal remark, that he was 
not particular a to a pound or two , if only the apples in the 
garden were painted quite nice and red. In the afternoon neigh- 
bouring settlers with their families arrived on a visit. Likewise 
a native, calling himself John Wesley, holding the office of 
a native-assessor on Kawhia Harbour, and aping in a ludicrous 
manner the gentleman or dandy, had arrived with his sponse, so 
that the house was quite crowded. There being no scarcity of 
pretty young ladies gracing the social circle, and the cellar of the 
house harbouring excellent English ale, the evening passed off very 
amusingly. 
M arch 28 th I started on my return to the Waipa. Three roads 
lead from Kawhia Harbour across the ranges along the southern 
foot of the Pirongia to the Waipa- valley. The traveller will 
choose one road or the other according to his point of starting 
on Kawhia Harbour or his place of destination on the Waipa. 
The southern route is the Awaroa-road. It leads from Awaroa 
Creek through a romantic limestone, and sandstone country and is 
connected with the roads to the upper Mokau district. But in order 
to arrive at the Mission station Kopua on the Waipa, the other 
two roads are preferable. The Kauri-road, starting from the Kauri 
Creek, appears to be less woody and montainous, than the Oparau- 
road, and is therefore specially to be recommended to horsemen, 
while the Oparau-road is the shortest and most direct route for 
pedestrians, but offering difficulties to horses, since two very deep 
and steep ravines are to be passed. Captain Hay and the photo- 
