A FOREST ENCAMPMENT. 
CHAPTER XXIV. 
MAORI MIDDENS. 
In October 1866 I accompanied Sir George Grey to the 
Nga-ti-rua-nui District ; when we reached the redoubt on 
the Waingongora River, where, in 1843, I discovered the 
largest deposit of moa bones which has been found in the 
island^ the Governor asked me, as soon as our tents were 
pitched, to shew him the place ; the spot was almost 
close at hand ; between the cliff on which the redoubt 
stands; and the Waingongora River, there is a sandy 
plain or valley of a concave form, gradually rising up the 
opposite side, to the old site of the Rangatapu pa ; on 
the south side of this plain there is a semi-circular bank. 
