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the conical gable a grotesque wooden figure was 
perched, profusely ornamented with feathers and a 
tuft of red horse-hair, with a pipe in his mouth. This, 
he told me, laughing, was meant to represent " Wide- 
' *' awake." 
'- The next day we reached Pitone beach, having been 
whisiced along from Cape Terawiti by the squalls off 
the high land. As we entered the heads of the har- 
bour, we saw a barque come out full sail, and stand 
away to the south-east. This turned out to be the 
Cuba ; in which Mr. Hanson, on his own suggestion to 
Colonel Wakefield, had been despatched to acquire 
land in the Chatham Islands for the New Zealand 
Land Company. 
