$Sk ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. IX. 
had provided myself with a private stock of goods for 
the purpose, and repaid to Colonel Wakefield a pro- 
portion of the charter-money equal to my proportion 
of the use of the vessel. I have been thus particular 
in detailing this private pig-dealing adventure, because 
I was long afterwards accused by some " repudiating " 
natives and some of their White protectors of having 
received the cargo of provisions as payment for the 
goods belonging to the Company (worth about 700/.) 
which I had paid for the land. 
We were detained a day or two by strong westerly 
winds, which made the bar too dangerous to attempt 
going out ; and the violence of the breakers was in- 
creased by a very rapid freshet which set out of the 
river, and made even our berth inside far from agree- 
able, by reason of the numerous large trees which 
drifted down. One night a tree some fifty feet in 
length took us athwart hawse, and bent our stem 
nearly gunwale under by its weight, until the crew, 
assisted by some natives sleeping on board, managed to 
pole it off to one side. 
Having bidden farewell to JE Kuru and the other 
natives, after promising to return soon and trade with 
them, and begging them to build houses about this 
part of the river, for which the White people would 
be glad to pay them, I weighed anchor and got safe 
out. On the 2nd of June we got back to Port Ni- 
cholson. In beating up to Pitone, we fell in with a 
whale-boat, which used to ply daily with passengers 
between Thorndon and Pitone, at the fare of half-a- 
crown. It was started by a man named Wright, who 
had been one of Barrett's companions in the Tara- 
naki wars, and a whaling headsman at Te-awa-iti. 
I got into the boat, as the wind was falling light, and 
immediately got an offer for my cargo from one of the 
