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and seized by their ruthless and powerful enemy. I also se¬ 
cured various species of the genera, Vespa, Thynnus, Coc- 
cinella, Mantis, Forjicida , and Dytiseus, and of others 
quite unknown to me; several of which, are doubtless new to 
science. I could but remark, that in many of them their 
colour was assimilated to that of the plant on which they 
lived—a beautiful display of the Divine Wisdom, by which 
many of His smaller and stationary creatures are the better 
enabled to elude the unceasing depredations of their ever- 
vigilant and rapacious enemies. 
“ Where space exists, Thine eyes of mercy see,— 
Creation lives, and moves, and breathes in Thee!” 
On the immediate banks of the river, I discovered a new 
and peculiar species of Rubus; an almost leafless shrub, 
having only here and there at the extremities of its youngest 
branches, a small compound leaf of three leaflets. It was 
about five feet high, branches very long, filiform, and much 
entangled; in colour, a beautiful light green, thickly studded 
with orange-coloured prickles. The natives, who accom¬ 
panied me, assured me that it bore red fruit in the winter, 
on which the birds fed. I could not, however, fiud a vestige 
of either flower or fruit. Here also I discovered two small 
exspitose plants of the natural order Compositacea, called 
by the natives, Papapa; together with two species of Epilo- 
biujn, which were new to me. This valley abounds in grass, 
and possesses a rich alluvial soil; slate, of a coarse quality, 
shows itself in large quantities towards its upper end. I soon 
arrived at Wakawitira, belonging to the Nagatiporou tribe, 
one of the largest native towns in New Zealand, containing, 
when all are assembled, from 3 to 4,000 souls. This village 
is not far from the celebrated mountain Hikurangi; an emi¬ 
nence belonging to the chain of mountains, which take their 
rise at the East Cape, and continue on to Wellington, Cook’s 
Straits, and which were denominated by Cook,“ the Southern 
Alps.” 
