1S4 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. V. 
a snug amphitheatre contains the pa in which Rangi- 
haeata and a few followers usually reside, and also the 
establishment of the White man owning the island. A 
small flock of sheep and fifty head of cattle, with two 
draught-horses, are attached to this sort of half-farm, 
half whaling-station. The ownership was in dispute 
between the last purchaser of this island and the {igent 
of the last owner, a Sydney merchant, who had neg- 
lected to advise his agent of the sale. 
The first U^hite owner of this island was a Mr. Bell ; 
whose White widow, quite mad, lives among the natives, 
and has acquired all their habits and ways of living. 
Mana has since passed through the hands of many 
owners, all dependent on the caprice and humour of 
Rangihaeata and the other Kawia natives, who have 
been used to kill the sheep for their fleeces, and to 
commit other outrages at their will. During the late 
feast we were told that fifty sheep had been sacrificed. 
On the -3 1st, we arrived in East Bay, opposite Ship 
Cove, followed in by a Bremen whaler who did not 
know the coast and wanted hands. I accompanied my 
uncle in a fatiguing walk over the hills to Hokikare. 
We ascended from Grass Cove, where the boat's crew 
of Captain Furneaux's ship was massacred and eaten in 
1770. We found there two or three whalers' summer 
residences, and were served with a meal ])efore pro- 
ceeding. 
At Hokikare we found the natives preparing to 
embark for Waikanae, in order to take part in any 
fighting which might succeed the battle. Tipi had 
collected sixty picked men, with whom he meant to 
make a raid on Rauperaha% island, and seize him, in 
order to avenge the death of his father in some former 
snare laid by the old intriguer. 
We proceeded to Dicky Barrett's at Te-awa-iti ; and 
