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command — "Works on shore — Officers — Native wives, or wahine 
— A whale signalled — The chase — Stratagems — A new hand — 
"Making fast" — Running — She "sounds"— The headsman — 
Killing a whale — The " flurry " — Towing home — Orgies — Hos- 
pitality — A whaler's house— Cleanliness — The " old man " — His 
boat — Discipline of whalers — CouR^e — Dispute between whalers 
and Rauperaha — Improvement among Natives owing to whalers 
— Bad qualities acquired from the same source — The whalers the 
first pioneers — Their life in the new settlements — Sawyers — 
Traders — " Beach-combers " — List of whaling-stations in 1844 — 
Statistics — Inexpediency of shore-whaling — The whalers might 
have become buccaneers — Disorderly whalers — Industrious car- 
penter — Wareho fishing 308 
CHAPTER XII. 
Company's store-ships — Major Bunbury's expedition in H. M. S. 
Herald — Proclamation of British sovereignty in Stewart's and 
Middle Islands — JRauperaha and Rangihaeata sign the cession 
of sovereignty — Cattle at Cloudy Bay — Public meeting — Colonel 
Wakefield deputed to present Eiddress to the Lieutenant-Governor 
— News from England — Plymouth Company of New Zealand — 
Sanguine hopes — Purchase of the Chatham Islands — Selection of 
town-lands — New Zealand Land Bill of New South Wales — In- 
consistencies in government — Mr. Busby — Panic of settlers — A 
trip to the Manawatu river — Level country — Ship-building — 
Morose chief — Ascent of the river by a trader — Its course — 
Return to Port Nicholson — The Chilian project — Return of 
Colonel Wakefield with the answer of the Lieutenant-Governor 
— Deputation to Sir George Gipps — The towns in the North — 
French expedition — Its object frustrated — Second riot at the 
Bay of Islands — Disturbance at Port Nicholson — Proclamation of 
Lieutenant Shortland — His offensive pomposity — His undignified 
conduct — A bullock-driver — Settlers drowned at Pitone — Af- 
fectionate Natives — Exploring expedition towards Mount Eg- 
mont 344 
CHAPTER XIII. 
Journey to Otaki — Troublesome natives — Waikawa — Natives de- 
ceive and rob us — Firmness procures restitution — Manawaiu — 
