vi CONTENTS. 
massacre of Puakawa — Sincere regrets — Colonists from Australia 
— Authority of Native chiefs employed j^inst lawless White 
men — First squatting — Good class of colonists — The settlement 
like an extensive pic-nic — Friendliness of the Natives — Their 
first doubts and fears — How removed — Native-built house, or 
ware — The tent of an Eastern traveller — The hut of an Austra- 
lian " over-lander " — Cattle from Sydney — Proclamation by the 
Governor of New South Wales against further land-sharking — 
Committee of colonists — Why and how fonned — Provisional 
Constitution — Agreement — Flood — The Cuba — Weather— Squa- 
dron arrives — Bank — Salute — Canoe procession — Ratification of 
Constitution by Native chiefs 184 
CHAPTER VIII. 
An exploring journey — The " boys " pack their loads — Farewell 
— Porirua — Parramatta — Waikawa — Nayti — Failure of the 
attempt to civilize him — Potato-grounds — Pukerita — Madman 
— Kumera, or sweet potato — Melons — Coast — Waikanae — Vil- 
lage of the Wanganui chief — Pukeko shooting — Native houses 
— Night alarm — Whalers and Natives at Kapiti — Gratitude for 
books — Shark's tooth — Canoe voyage — Karaka-nMis — Coast — 
Surf — Wangaihu river — Pumice-stone — E Kuru — Wanganui 
river — Encampment — Speeches — Putikiwaranui — Head chiefs — 
Vestiges of Rev. Henry Williams — Fishing fleet — Fishing vil- 
lages — Eagerness to sell land — Native mats — Dishonesty re- 
proved — land-mark — Cliffy shore — Waitotara — Suspicion- — A 
tutua^ or" plebeian" tribe — Missionary calumnies — Valley — Fish- 
ing - weir — Lampreys — Tedious travelling — Wenuakura, or 
" land of plumage " — Hospitality — Crowding — Tihoe pa — Patea 
— Robbery — Utu, or payment — Threats — Restitution — I am 
obliged to return — Parrots — Open plains — Religious scruples 
exaggerated — Excursion up the Wanganui — Scenery — Village 
— Return to Wangaihu — Camp — Fleet of canoes — Rangitikei 
river — Eels — Native gluttony — Prayers at sea — Festival at 
Waikanae — Shipping at Kapiti — Whale-boat journey — Mana — 
Hangiliaeata—CaiTving — We go on to Pitone . . .216 
CHAPTER IX. 
House built by Natives — Manuka wood — Stock from Australia — 
Horses — Arrival of Captain Hobson at the Bay of Islands — 
