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lowances for the obstacles presented by the hilly and 
densely wooded country in which part of the town had 
to be laid out, or for the time occupied by the first 
mistake of surveying a site in the valley of the Hutt. 
The survey was now progressing fast ; and Captain 
Smith confidently promised that the map of the town 
should be ready for inspection about the middle of 
July. 
I had now become so interested in the progress 
of the colony, — especially since the establishment of 
British government, — that instead of seeking for a 
passage towards home by one of the emigrant ships 
going to India or China for a cargo, I postponed my re- 
turn to England indefinitely, I determined to see a 
little of the first formation of a town and of the first 
agricultural operations. As the town-sections were 
not to be chosen for a month at least, I set off to spend 
this interval at Kapiti, having conceived a great desire 
to observe the proceedings of the whalers, then in full 
work. 
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