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order and peace. The combatants looked exceedingly 
crestfallen as they gathered up the remains of the 
broken things ; but took especial pains to tell us that 
it was no fault of ours, but the yorangi or " foolish- 
" ness" of the Maori. Others, who had assumed a quiet, 
watchful attitude during the disturbance, smilingly 
produced from under their mats some chain-hook, 
sounding-lead, or other handy weapon, with which 
they had armed themselves in case of the worst. 
During the negotiations, our old tormentor at Ship 
Cove, " Dogskin,'' once appeared alongside ; but upon 
our recognizing him, although his costume was much 
altered, and pointing him out to the attention of Bar- 
rett and the surrounding natives, he was evidently much 
ashamed, and went right away. Nor did he ever re- 
turn on board. Ngarewa attended the whole proceed- 
ings, and received his share of the payment. 
On the 9th, Colonel Wakefield landed and took 
formal possession in the name of the Company. 
\^^e had now obtained the rights and claims of a 
large proportion of the owners of land on both sides of 
Cook's Strait. 
The Kawia claimants by conquest, and the Ngati- 
awa or actual occupants, had both been satisfactorily 
dealt with in a general way. It remained to satisfy 
the tribes resident along the sea-coast of the northern 
shore, between Waikanae and the Sugar-loaf Islands. 
Colonel Wakefield left it to future times to deal with 
the N ^Ottawa of TVaikanae, many of whose chiefs 
had been concerned in this last affair, and who had 
seemed moreover well inclined to join in the trans- 
action on the occasion of Colonel Wakefield's recent 
visit to them. He also postponed to a less disturbed 
season the idea of dealing with the Ngatiraukawu. And 
he resolved next to proceed to Turanaki, in order to 
satisfy the now scanty occupiers of that extensive and 
