216 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. VIII. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
An exploring journey — The "boys" pack their loaxls — Farewell 
— Porinca — Parramatta — Waikawa — Nayti — Failure of the 
attempt to civilize him — Potato-grounds — Pukerua — Madman 
— Kumera, or sweet potato — Melons — Coast — Waikanae — Vil- 
lage of the Wanganui chief — Pukeko shooting — Native houses 
— Night alarm — "Whalers and natives at Kapiti — Gratitude for 
books — Shark's tooth — Canoe voyage — Karaka-nxits — Coast — 
Surf — Wangaihu river — Pumice-stone — E Kuru — Wanganui 
river — Encampment— Speeches — Putikiwaranui — Head chie& — 
Vestiges of Rev. Henry Williams — Fishing fleet — Fishing vil- 
lages — Eagerness to sell land — Native mats — Dishonesty re- 
proved — Land-mark — Cliffy shore — Waitotara — Su.spicion — A 
tutua, or plebeian tribe — Missionary calumnies — Valley — Fish- 
ing - weir — Lampreys — Tedious travelling — Wenuakura, or 
" land of plumage " — Hospitality — Crowding — Tihoe pa — Patea 
— Robbery — Utu, or payment — Threats — Restitution — I am 
obliged to return — Parrots — Open plains — Religious scruples 
exaggerated — Excursion up the Wanganui — Scenery — Village 
— Return to Wangaihu — Camp — Fleet of canoes — Hangitikei 
river — Eels — Native gluttony — Prayers at sea — Festival at 
Waikanae — Shipping at Kapiti — Whale-boat journey — Mana — 
Rangihaeata — Carving — We go on to Pitone. 
Things were in this state, when I determined to 
set off on a journey along the coast towards the 
T'Vanganui river.* 
I had been much confined hitherto by the pretty 
constant employment of writing, for I had acted as 
* I owe it to the kindness of Mr. John Arrowsmith, and to the 
public spirit which he applies to the advancement of geographical 
knowledge, that I have been enabled to furnish the reader with a 
map of New Zealand more correct than any that has yet appeared. 
It embodies the recent French surveys and those of the Company's 
surveyors in the Middle Island, besides the sketches of travellers in 
other parts. It is, however, only a map of reference for these 
volumes ; and therefore contains no names not mentioned in them. 
I may be allowed to add that the only complete map of New Zea- 
land is that published by Mr. Arrowsmith. 
