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the hands of her children; whose eyes arc now opening 
to the fact, that they cannot part with such lands to 
the foreigner without detriment to themselves or their 
descendants. Her natural productions—her fisheries, 
her metals, her timber, her flax, her pork, and her 
barks for dyeing and tanning—will, doubtless, prove an 
inexhaustible mine ot wealth; but, ere these can be 
available, the spirit of labour and industry, of energy 
and alacrity, must be infused into her present occupiers; 
contentment and unity must dwell among us—and self 
denial be extensively practised. 
Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 
January, 1843. 
P.S.—The total number of specimens in Natural 
History, collected and observed by me in this excursion, 
may amount to nearly 1,000, of which I have had the 
pleasure of transmitting to Sir W. J. Hooker, upwards 
of 600, being about the number I considered new; two- 
thirds of which, at least, I can but suppose to be at 
present unknown to science. It is chiefly in conse¬ 
quence of my having done so that I have not cared 
minutely to particularize or describe the greater number, 
knowing that that gentleman—and who more eminently 
qualified?—will not fail to do so.—W.C. 
