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way, the effect produced on the natives of this place by 
Mr. Williams's visit in December. It appeared that, 
after missing us in Cook's Strait, that gentleman had 
landed at JVmkanae with Mr. Hadfield, the missionary 
whom 1 had heard of there, and had travelled on foot 
nearly as far as Ngamotu at Taranaki, and then 
returned, leaving his companion at TVaikanae. On 
my asking Turoa what sort of a man Williams was, 
and how he behaved to the natives, the old man 
answered, " He is a tangata riri, or * angry man,' who 
" shuts his tent-door upon us, and does not sit by our 
*• sides and talk kindly to us, as you do : but he has 
" the Atua (God) upon his lips, and we are afraid of 
" his anger." At dusk I returned to Wahi puna, and 
slept in my tent. 
At daybreak next morning a whole fleet of canoes 
went out to sea to fish. Together with Wide-awake's 
party, there were at least fifty sail. At the flood, which 
was in the afternoon, they all entered the river, and pro- 
ceeded to fish for the kawai, large shoals of which had 
come in with the tide. As this fishery is always con- 
ducted at full speed, the sea-reach, about three miles 
long, presented a most lively scene. A light breeze fa- 
voured the sailing one way ; so that half of the canoes 
were under sail, and the others pulling in the opposite 
direction. They continued thus to alternate for two 
or three hours, singing as they paddled, and yelling 
with delight whenever an unusually large fish was 
hauled in. I passed through the centre of this fishing 
fleet, on my way to a village on the opposite side, 
about half a mile above Putikiwaranui. I found here 
about two hundred men, women, and children. £J Kuru 
told me that they were from the TVahi •pari, or " Place 
" of Cliffs," a name given to the upper part of this 
river, where it runs between very high steep banks. 
