148 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. VI. 
them for their land, and to protect them from their 
enemies ; and how a like protection had been needed 
and secured by his fathers in the south. He drew a 
short sketch of our progress and intentions, and then 
delivered the advice of JEpuni and Tf^arepori, that they 
should sell Taranaki to their good pakehuy or White 
man. 
The next morning we landed Barrett and his train, 
including Tuarau. It was declared impossible to col- 
lect the different chiefs connected with the district of 
Taranaki in less than a week, as some of them resided 
far off. Colonel Wakefield, therefore, determined to 
leave Barrett here to prepare the natives for the sale, 
and to proceed himself at once to Hokianga* and Kai- 
para, two harbours in the north of the island, where 
he had to discover and take possession of certain dis^ 
tricts which had been acquired by the Company from 
former purchasers before we left England. Dr. Dieffen- 
bach was also persuaded by my uncle to land here, and 
seize the opportunity of examining Mount Egmont and 
the surrounding country, so highly interesting to the 
geologist, and of which so little was yet known from 
authentic sources. The surf was still exceedingly high 
on the beach ; but the whale-boats landed Dicky and 
all his goods and chattels, animate and inanimate, by 
an early hour in the afternoon, and we weighed 
anchor and stood to the northward, before a fine fresh 
breeze. 
E TVare had determined to accompany Colonel 
Wakefield in his peregrinations ; Jim Crow considered 
himself now as much attached to the ship as her figure- 
head ; and a native of Rotoma (one of the South Sea 
Islands), named "Saturday," who had been whaling 
under Barrett, also made his choice for the Tory, 
j * Erroneously spelt Jokeeangar and Shukeeanga on some maps. 
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