lip ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. VI. 
On the 29th, the boat returned, having landed 
Colonel Wakefield about one hundred miles up the 
river. The party described the river as navigable for 
shipping up to that point, and the banks as clothed 
with the finest kauri timber, from twenty miles above 
our anchorage. They had passed several sawyers' and 
lumberers' stations, and also stations of the Wesleyan 
and Catholic missions. They described the mosquitoes 
to be in great numbers and extraordinary vigour in 
every place where they had stopped. 
All the cargo was now landed and stored under 
tents ashore. The cabin-party also established an en- 
campment under a cliff nearly abreast of the anchor- 
age. The Tory was hove down on a sand-bank at the 
first spring-tide, on the 4th of January ; and, after a 
survey by Captains Chaffers and Warming, the neces- 
sary repairs were proceeded with. During this inter- 
val, the Bee brig from Sydney arrived and proceeded 
up the river. We also had a visit from Mr. W. C. 
Symonds, a son of Sir William Symonds, whom I had 
known in London ; and who had come out as agent 
for a Scotch company, which had bought land at 
Manukauy a harbour about thirty miles south of 
this. Mr. Symonds was only accompanied by one 
White man ; and described the natives as having been 
exceedingly dishonest and troublesome in all their 
transactions with him. He had crossed the isthmus 
which lies between the innermost part of the harbour 
of Manukau and the east coast, and had obtained a 
view of the eastern sea. He had endured considerable 
hardships and privations ; and returned to his station 
up the Kaipara river some days after, having provided 
himself with some necessaries. The latter river flows 
into the estuary on its south side, taking its source 
very near the harbour of Manukau. A great inland 
