CONTENTS. T 
Threats — Reconciliation — The deed signed — Rauperaha^a ra- 
pacity — Gale of wind — Mana, or Table Island — East Bay in 
Queen Charlotte's Sound — Funeral of trader at Te-awa-iti — Ne- 
gotiations for land — Another deed — Scramble — Extent of rights 
now acquired — Return to Kapiti — Land-buyers from Sydney — 
War-canoes — Warepori and Rauperaha — Wanganui chiefs — A 
warrior — Rauperaha repudiates his bargain . . .105 
CHAPTER VI. 
Search for Wanganui river — Appearance of country — The chief 
E Kuru lands — Coast — Tonga Riro and Mount Egmont — 
Sugar-loaf Islands — Surf — Native greetings — Barrett and Doctor 
Dieffenbach land — False Hokianga — Hokianga — Signals — Pilot 
— European Settlements — Nature of country — Wesleyan mission 
— ^Mr. Bumby, a worthy missionary — Kauri timber — Natives 
tamed, but not civilized — Lieutenant Macdonnell's establishment — 
Vineyard — Baron de Thierry — Colonel Wakefield buys title-deeds 
of Wairau near Cloudy Bay — Our shipwreck outside Kaipara — A 
cool man-of-war's man — Perils in a boat — Estuary of Kaipara — 
Bivouacs-Mosquitoes — The Navarino — A sailor's hospitality — 
The Tory is hove down — Colonel Wakefield proceeds to Bay of 
Islands — Wairoa river — Mr. Symonds — Country about Kaipara 
—Mr. White, a missionary and " land-shark" — The Guide arrives 
— Mr. John Blackett — Dr. Dorset and I embark in the Guide — 
Dangers — A whaler at sea — Navigation — Sugar-loaf Islands — 
Moturoa — Barrett's adventures — Mr. White — His letters — The 
view from Sugar-loaf Peak — Dangerous situation of the Guide 
— Our dormitory — Twelve days on a rocky islet — Missionary 
hostility — Native language as manufactured by the missionaries — 
Punishment of adultery — Return of the Guide — Two deeds signed 
— Preparations for a skirmish — Mediation — Barracoota fishing — 
Arrival at Port Nicholson 144 
CHAPTER VII. 
Shipping and tents in sight — We land — Greetings — Colonel Wake- 
field's journey — Overland path — Roman Catholic converts — Ko- 
r<yrareka in the Bay of Islands — Hire of the Guide and her crew 
— Port Hardy — Native raillery — D'Urville's Island — Voyage in 
whale-boat — Welcome by natives — Arrival of emigrants — Rivals 
in buying land — Mr. Tod — The Rev. Henry Williams — Richard 
Davis, the native missionary — Dispute between missions — The 
