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expected rather an angry reception, these being the 
very men who had been refused access to the Tory 
during our first altercation in Queen Charlotte's 
Sound. 
Having all become musionaries since that time, 
they formed in a ring to exchange the rw, or " shake" 
of the hand ; but, as soon as Colonel Wakefield had 
seated himself, Mark, " the Star's" eldest son, and his 
wife, both asked him how he expected to be treated 
after turning them out of his ship ; and said they had 
been told that he was coming to seize their land and 
send them' to Europe as prisoners. He answered them 
good-humouredly, that he would pay them for their 
land if he wanted it and they wished to sell it ; and 
that he expected some food after his long walk. They 
immediately complied with this request, apparently 
ashamed of having till then neglected it ; and were 
soon very friendly and communicative. 
Old Te TVetu had become a missionary, and was 
much weakened by sickness. He was dying of a com- 
plaint of the lungs, which we had remarked as very 
prevalent and fatal among all the tribes. He was 
annoyed at the bad opinion formed of Rangitoto, or 
D'Urville's Island, by my uncle, whom he had pressed 
to say what he thought of it. 
The whole island is a mass of very steep hills, gene- 
rally bare. On the eastern side, an extensive tract of 
table-land is cleared by the natives for potatoes; of 
which they sell the surplus, together with the nume- 
rous pigs running on the hills. Port Hardy is a very 
fine harbour of refuge, but is exceedingly deep close to 
the shore, and rather difficult of egress ; its entrance 
facing towards the prevailing north-west winds. 
On the 14th, Colonel Wakefield dispatched the 
Guide to Kaijmru ; and a messenger arrived from Port 
