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the country as again opening out beyond this gorge, 
and related that the natives of the furthest settlement 
to which he attained spoke a somewhat different dialect 
from the Ngatirmikawa, and called it only two days' 
walk to the " East Cape." As I had found this name 
applied by the Cook's Strait natives to the eastern 
coast generally, I concluded that his informants proba- 
bly referred to some part of Hawke's Bay. He de- 
scribed a numerous population as dwelling below the 
gorge, and complained much of their rude and savage 
manners. He even attributed his safety from plunder 
or outrage to the company of his native woman, who 
was related in some distant way to the tribe. 
The next morning, Lewis having returned with a 
dozen fine hogs for me, we left the river, Dufi' showing 
us a tolerable boat-passage through the breakers about 
the middle of the south spit. We stopped a night at 
Kapifi, where I picked up two sawyers who begged 
for a passage ; and a few hours at Mana, which I found 
in possession of an agent of the last White purchaser. 
Ranii'ihaeafa was also there, and, hearing that I had 
been looking at Manawafu, took occasion to t«ll me that 
it belonged to him and Rauperaha. We then sailed 
with a squally breeze from north-west round Cape Te- 
rawiti, beat into the harbour during the night, and 
landed at daybreak on Pitone beach. 
I found that the choice of the town sections had 
been concluded on the 1 4th, to the ultimate satisfaction 
of all the squabbling agents and proprietors. 
The panic caused by Sir George Gipps's Bill had in- 
creased to a very high pitch ; and I heard that a set of 
the colonists had seriously projiosed a general re-migra- 
tion to Chile. It was suggested that the vessels in 
harbour should be chartered, and that a preliminary 
expedition should start at once to make terms with the 
