144 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. VI. 
CHAPTER VI. 
Search for Wanganui river — Appearance of country — The chief 
E Kuru lands — Coast — Tonga Riro and Mount Egmont — 
Sugar-loaf Islands — Surf — Native greetings — Barrett and Doctor 
DiefFenbach land — False Hokianga — Hokianga — Signals — Pilot 
— European Settlements — Nature of country — Wesleyan mission 
— ^Mr. Bumby, a worthy missionary — Kauri timber — Natives 
tamed, but not civilized — Lieutenant Macdonnell's establishment — 
Vineyard — Baron de Thierry — Colonel Wakefield buys title-deeds 
of Wairau near Cloudy Bay — Our shipwreck outside Kaipara — A 
cool man-of-war's man — Perils in a boat — Estuary of Kaipara — 
Bivouac — Mosquitoes — The Navarino — A sailor's hospitality — 
The Tory is hove down — Colonel Wakefield proceeds to Bay of 
Islands — Wairoa river — Mr. Symonds — Country about Kaipara 
— Mr. White, a missionary and " land-shark" — The Guide arrives 
• — Mr. John Blackett — Dr. Dorset and I embark in the Guide — 
Dangers — A whaler at sea — Navigation — Sugar-loaf Islands — 
Moturoa — Barrett's adventures — Mr. White — His letters — The 
view from Sugar-loaf Peak — Dangerous situation of the Guide 
— Our dormitory — Twelve days on a rocky islet — Missionary 
hostility — Native language as manufactured by the missionaries — 
Punishment of adultery — Return of the Guide — Two deeds signed 
— Preparations for a skirmish — Mediation — Barracoota fishing — 
Arrival at Port Nicholson. 
In the evening a fine breeze swept us past Otakt ; 
and in the morning we were far north of the TVan- 
franui river. E Kuru and his attendant were now 
fairly puzzled ; they had never seen their country 
from further out at sea than they go in their canoes ; 
and as all the land north of JVaikanae is level and 
low for a great distance inland, so as not to bear any 
distinguishing features from the Strait, they confounded 
different parts of this monotonous coast. 
Dicky, however, recognised the land as being be- 
tween Patea and JVanganui. We therefore took 
