Chap. V. CLOUDY BAY. 106 
CHAPTER V. 
Port Underwood in Cloudy Bay — Angry Natives — Peace restored 
— Whaling-stations — Fishing — We sail for Te-awa-iti — Fighting 
Bay — We cross the strait to Kapiti — Islets near it — Battle of 
Waikanae — Funeral feast — Rauperaha — His appearance — His 
history — HongVs, wars — The Kawia tribe — Te Pehi Kupe — In- 
vasion of Cook's Strait — The contending tribes — Immense 
slaughter — Allies — Siege and capture of Kapiti — Extermina- 
tion of Aborigines — Visit of Te Pehi to England — His return 
and death — Rauperaha's revenge— His White coadjutors — He 
acquires influence — Opposes the Ngatiawa — His unbounded 
treachery — His behaviour to White men — Rangihaeata assists 
him in marauding — Whaling-stations — Waikanae village — 
Wounded and dead — Rauperaha on board — Hiko — Negotiations 
for sale of land — News from Sydney — Quarrel among chiefs — 
Threats — Reconciliation — The deed signed — Rauperaha^s ra- 
pacity — Gale of wind — Mana, or Table Island — East Bay in 
Queen Charlotte's Sound — Funeral of trader at Te-awa-iti — Ne- 
gotiations for land — Another deed — Scramble — Extent of rights 
now acquired — Return to Kapiti — Land-buyers from Sydney — 
War-canoes — Warepori and Rauperaha — Wanganui chiefe — A 
warrior' — Rauperaha repudiates his bargain. 
On the morning of the 4th of November, we sailed 
from Port Nicholson, and anchored at night in the 
mouth of Port Underwood in Cloudy Bay. The lofty 
and more barren mountains beneath Avhich it lies struck 
us as cheerless and desolate after the shores of Port 
Nicholson ; and rude flurries of wind from the high 
peaks whistled among our rigging. 
In the morning of the 5th we warped further into 
the harbour ; and found no less a contrast in the cha- 
racter of the natives inhabiting the two places. The 
Kawia natives had evidently been incited against us by 
Guard and Wynen, who had l3een inclined before our 
arrival to purchase Port Nicholson themselves, but had 
