CONTENTS. Vil 
Council — Newspaper — Appointments — Harmony interrupted by 
a stranger — The Rev. Henry Williams — Proceedings of the 
Lieutenant-Governor at the Bay of Islands — Mr. "Williams sent 
to extend them to Cook's Strait — Mr. Williams's selfish views — 
Clergymen arrive from England — Settlers in the valley of the 
Hutt — Cheerful progress — Politics — Contentment — Thorndon — 
Dicky Barrett — New South Wales land-sharks — The Surprise 
schooner — Voyage to Wanganui — JE Kuru^s joy — Arrival — 
The Rev. Messrs. Williams and Hadneld — Cession of sovereignty 
— Delusion— Gathering of tribes — Purchase of Wanganui — 
Conference — Authority of a head chief — Deed signed — Distri- 
bution — Greediness — Scramble— Fears — Anger of E Kuru — 
Homai no homai, or a " gift for a gift " — Freshet — Return to 
Port Nicholson 270 
CHAPTER X. 
Town of "Britannia" — English boy killed by native — Harmony 
undisturbed — Fire of " Cornish Row " — Earthquake — Notice to 
inhabitants to drill — Lieutenant Shortland, the Colonial Secre- 
tary, arrives with troops — Burlesque pomposity of a constable — 
Proclamation of British sovereignty — British loyalty and good 
feeling — Mounted policemen — Brutality — Laws of a penal colony 
— Mr. Tod excites Natives against the settlers — They begin to 
repudiate — Change in feelings of Natives — The chiefs offended by 
the Government authorities — News from the Bay of Islands- 
Riot of Natives quelled by military — Survey — I postpone my 
return to England 294 
CHAPTER XI. 
A colonist hires a whaling-station — Porirua — Native custom of 
plunder — H. M. S. Herald — Kapiti — The whalers — Ingredients 
of the class — Character — Knowledge — .Early history — Savage in- 
tercourse between shipping and Natives — Mr. Marsden brought 
convicts to New Zealand — Sealers of the south — Foundation of 
whaling settlements in Cook's Strait — Perils — Increase in 
strength — Precarious commerce— Social arrangements — Articles 
— Laws of the Bay — The season — Ranks — Whaling argot, or 
" slang " — Preparations — The boats— The tackle — Words of 
