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CHAPTER II. 
Departure from Plymouth — Passengers — Voyage — First sight of 
New Zealand — Cook's Strait — Queen Charlotte's Sound — Ship 
Cove — Natives — Village — Wretched houses — Dispute with 
Natives — Reconciliation — European settlement — Messenger sent 
— Returns with two Englishmen — Mountains — Forest — Scenery 
of Queen Charlotte's Sound — Tory Channel — Native Pa, or 
Fort — H. M. B. Pelorus — Te-awa-iti — Richard Barrett — Tribes 
of Cook's Strait — Proprietorship of land unsettled — Vague 
notions of Natives — Plan of Native Reserves as real payment. 
All our equipments and preparations being at length 
complete, we sailed from Plymouth on the 12th of May. 
The ship was commanded by Mr. Edmund Mein 
Chaffers, of the Royal Navy, who had been acting 
master of H. M. S. Beagle during the survey of Cape 
Horn and voyage round the world, performed by 
Captain Fitzroy between the years 1830 and 1836. 
Besides Colonel AVakefield and myself, the follow- 
ing gentlemen were passengers on board : — Doctor 
Ernest Dieffenbach, a native of Berlin, who had been 
appointed naturalist to the Company ; Mr. Charles 
Heaphy, the Company's draughtsman; Mr. John 
Dorset, who had been promised the appointment of 
colonial surgeon ; Nayti, a New Zealander, who had 
been residing during two years in my father's house in 
London, and who was to act as interpreter ; Mr. 
Richard Lowry, the chief mate ; and Mr. George F. 
Robinson, the surgeon of the ship. The Rev. Mon- 
tague Hawtrey, to whom I have already adverted as 
the writer of the admirable essay on the amalgamation 
of a civilized people with savages, was to have accom- 
panied us as chaplain. He had actually received his 
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