ir CONTENTS. 
liness— Native whale-boats — Wretched houses and food — Boat 
expedition — Tide-rip — Jack Guard — His perilous adventures 
in 1834— H. M.S. Alligator— Port Gore— Admiralty Bay- 
Wild cattle — Estuary of the Pelorus — Bivouac — Ducks — Tree- 
ferns — Teal — Tributary Natives — Pigeons — Precautions — 
Rapids — Canoe — Horror of brandy — Old Pa — Phormium tenax 
— Scraping — Guard's Island — A sacred Chief— Gale— Arrival 
at the ship — Climate — Illness of Natives — Departure for Port 
Nicholson— Shores of Cook's Strait 44 
CHAPTER IV. ,. 
Entrance of Port Nicholson— ^Wareport and Epuni — History of 
the tribe — Missionary notions — Talk about land — Tangi, or 
crying — Nayti — Excursion round harbour — Speeches as to sale 
of land — Native cookery — Mocking-bird — Discussions — Sham-* 
fighting — The purchase — Opposition — Vague notions of Natives . 
as to ownership of land — No title but occupancy — Distribution 
of payment — Signature of deed — Nicknames — The Huia — Fish ^ 
— Native hook — Preparations for rejoicing — Gathering — Dress 
— War-dance — Haka, or recitative — Feast — Contentment of 
Natives — Nomenclature — Our satisfaction — Sanguine prospects 
— Intentions towards Natives — Hostility of Native missionaries 
— Reasons 70 
CHAPTER V. 
Port Underwood in Cloudy Bay — ^Angry Natives — Peace restored 
— ^Whaling-stations — Fishing — We sail for Te-awa-iti — Fighting 
Bay — We cross the strait to Kapiti — Islets near it — Battle of 
Waikanae — Funeral feast — Rauperaha — His appearance — His 
history — Hongi^a wars — The Kawia tribe — Te Pehi Kupe — In- 
vasion of Cook's Strait — The contending tribes — 'Immense 
slaughter — Allies — Siege and capture of Kapiti — Extermina- 
tion of Aborigines — Visit of Te Pehi to England — His return 
and death — Rauperaha' a revenge — His White coadjutors — He 
acquires influence — Opposes the Ngatiawa — His unbounded 
treachery — His behaviour to White men — Rangihaeata assists 
him in marauding — Whaling-stations — Waikanae village — 
Wounded and dead — Rauperaha on board — Hiko — Negotiations 
for sale of land — News from Sydney — Quarrel among chiefs — 
