Chap. V. MAUPERAHA ON BOARD. 12{S[ 
On our return to the ship we found that Raupnraha 
had been on board, having been received by Colonel 
Wakefield with a salute to the New Zealand flag, 
which he did not at all understand. Indeed, it 
rather alarmed him, until it was explained that an 
honour was intended to him and the chiefs who ac- 
companied him. 
Mr. Wynen had preceded us from Cloudy Bay ; and 
the chiefs were at first much opposed to selling any 
land, saying that they had been told the White people 
would drive them away from their future settlements. 
They were also exceedingly jealous of our purchase of 
Port Nicholson. 
Colonel Wakefield, after much discussion, appeared 
to convince them of the friendly intentions of the White 
people towards them, and that they would be much 
benefited by their arrival ; and they finished by saying, 
" Look at the land ! if it is good, take it ! " 
Rauperaha staid on board to dinner, with his wife, 
a tall JMeg-Merrilies-like woman, who had a bushy 
head of hair, frizzled out to the height of six inches 
all round, and a masculine voice and appetite. She is 
the daughter of his last wife by a former husband. 
Rauperaha and several other of the Kawia chiefs 
drank ardent spirits freely, repudiating the use of 
water, and refusing with great contempt anything less 
than a full tumbler. It did not seem, however, to 
have the same effect upon them that it would have 
upon a person unhardened to the use of liquor. 
Rauperaha sat for his portrait to Mr. Heaphy, and 
made a noisy demand for a waistcoat in payment as 
soon as the sitting was over. Indeed, he asked shame- 
lessly for everything which he saw, and he seemed 
well used to being refused. 
On the 18th, the chiefs were again on board. 
