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unavailable for ships of any great burthen. They 
crossed over many large rivers, and rowed down 
others running through fine fertile lands : on the 
banks of these rivers they found great numbers 
of natives scattered, and that the reports made 
with respect to the population of the district 
known by the name of Waikato, which compre- 
hends almost all the land from Kawia to the 
Thames, were in some measure correct ; though 
the population was not so extensive as they had 
expected to find it. Here, as in other parts of the 
island, when the natives are not living in fortifi- 
cations for security, they were found to be re- 
siding in detached villages, at a few miles’ dis- 
tance one from the other; their cultivations being 
still more scattered, upon the principle every- 
where adopted ; namely, that, should they be 
attacked by a stripping party, only one portion of 
their food may be carried away, and they may 
still have something to depend upon, after their 
enemies have taken from them all that they 
appear to possess. The travellers returned by 
way of the Thames, and waited at the Mission 
Station there, till the arrival of the schooner 
‘Fortitude’ with stores, when they embarked; 
and, after beating about for several days in 
sight of the harbour, landed in excellent health 
and spirits at Pailiia. We are now become pretty 
well acquainted with the number of inhabitants, 
in all parts of the country, from the North Cape, 
as far south as Table Cape ; and the time is not 
