40 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. H. 
to the natives, impede the cultivation and consequent 
rise in value of all the lands in their neighbourhood. 
They have been found to produce there the same evils 
which arose from the excessive grants made to indivi- 
duals at the first foundation of the colony of Swan 
River. The Indian reserves in Canada would doubt- 
less become of real value to the Indians, if small 
portions of them could be given away to bond jide 
settlers, able to bring labour and capital to bear on 
their land. The intervening parts of the great desert 
would then acquire more value, and produce more 
revenue, than the whole of it while it remained tapu 
to any but the Indians. 
On a similar principle we proposed to confer a greater 
value on the reserves for the natives in our colony than 
could belong to the whole district while lying waste ; 
for which, nevertheless, we proposed to give them an 
immediate, ample, and satisfactory payment. In order 
to understand our provisions for this purpose, it is 
necessary to know the plan which the Company had 
projected before our departure, for the distribution of 
the land among the intending colonists. 
In the first place, in accordance with the system then 
adopted in all our colonies, the land was to be sold in 
England, at the rate of 100/. for each section, consist- 
ing of one acre in the site of the town, and a hundred 
acres in the surrounding country ; and three-fourths 
of the proceeds were to be expended in carrying out 
labourers to the colony. 
The first colony was to consist of a town of 1 100 acres, 
and a corresponding country district of 1 1 0,000 acres. 
As soon as the list of purchasers of 1000 sections 
should be filled up, a lottery was to be formed in 
England, by which 1 1 00 orders of selection should be 
drawn, corresponding to the sum of the 1000 purchased 
