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canoe back to my house, and asked me to send a note 
for all my guns, flints, bullet-moulds, lead, and powder. 
A canoe containing one or two White traders joined 
us here from the settlement. 
We now proceeded to Ikurangi, hpa about six miles 
further on, where it seemed resolved that we should 
all wait until more news were heard from the puni or 
resting-place of the Ngatipehi. Accordingly, all the 
canoes were hauled up, and tents built, on an island 
facing the pa. The Patutokoto people, whom we had 
passed at their resting-places last night, also arrived 
and took up their quarters on the island. It was alto- 
gether an animated scene. In the midst of lofty moun- 
tains, whose sides are diversified by wood, plantations, 
tracts of fern land, and cliflPs peeping out here and 
there, on a level point which slopes gradually down to 
a sudden bend in the river, is situated the pa with its 
double fence and fighting-stages towards the river, and 
a perpendicular descent towards that reach of it in 
which the island lies, formed by a rapid foaming on 
each side. Between the island and the pa, all the 
canoes were either hauled up or moored to poles. A 
fishing-weir is built in the midst of this rapid, and the 
little children were swimming and splashing in the 
most dangerous part of it. The natives belonging to 
the pa were sitting outside their fence on the top of 
the cliff, watching the people on the island, which was 
quite gay with the little flags and banners of different 
colours that most of the canoes had hoisted in imi- 
tation of mine. Two canoes went up to the taua, and 
returned again this afternoon. E Kuru, who went 
in one of them, told me he had not landed, being afraid 
that the Ngatipehi might owe him a grudge for as- 
sisting their enemies on the former occasion. Two or 
three of the Ngatipehi people came down in one of 
