Chap. V. RECONCILIATION— THE DEED SIGNED. 131 
to bring them round to as friendly a spirit as they had. 
been in before the disagreement arose. 
After all had gone ashore but Rauperaha and Tun- 
gia, who remained in hopes of getting the two guns 
as presents, which they had selected and declared tapu 
for themselves, we again shifted our berth, in order to 
take up a more sheltered position. In doing this, we 
experienced a heavy tide-rip and some severe squalls off 
the island ; and when, during one of these, the vessel 
careened over, and the spanker-boom flew in half, 
Rauperaha was in a most abject state of fear ; asking 
me whether she would not turn right over, and repeat- 
ing, as he stood trembling with his face to windward, 
a long, rapid incantation to the spirit of the gale. 
During one of our tacks, which extended to some 
distance, we increased his fears by a joking offer to 
take him to Port Nicholson, that he and Tungia 
might execute their purpose of killing TVarepori and 
our natives. 
On the 24th, Rauperaha and Hiko determined to 
make up their difference, and, unsolicited by Colonel 
Wakefield, came on board unattended. They looked 
for some time over some books of plates in the cabin, 
talking on different subjects, and then requested that 
the deed of conveyance might be read to them. This 
was done, and the whole translated and fully explained 
to them. The map was also again placed before them, 
and they pointed out the places to which they had a 
claim, saying, that no one lived on a great part of it, 
and that this part was of no use to any one, and least 
of all to them. 
They then both signed the deed ; Hiko making a 
cross opposite his name with the pen which I held for 
him, but Rauperaha making a peculiar mark of his 
own with the pen in his own hand. They then left 
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