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the canoes to see tlieir friends among the Patutokoto ; 
and a tangi, or crying-match, and speeches from both 
parties, lasted till I was asleep. 
Starting again at break of day, we ascended about 
six miles, when a cry was raised to keep the canoes 
close together ; and in this order, with perhaps fifty 
canoes and three hundred people of all ages and both 
sexes, we doubled a point, and came in full view of the 
Ngatipehi encampment. From the edge of a bank, 
rising very steep for forty feet from the eastern shore, 
the ground was cleared of wood, and rose gradually in 
the form of an amphitheatre, backed by a forest. Five 
hundred warriors were disposed in rows about this 
clear space, according to their tribes and families, each 
with his musket or two-barrelled fowling-piece. After 
a ^QW shots had been fired from our flotilla, by way of 
greeting, I saw a chief running up and down harangu- 
ing the others ; and immediately they answered by a 
regular discharge of musketry, backwards and for- 
wards, along each row, which lasted for nearly five 
minutes. I was much surprised to find them so well 
armed ; each man had a musket, and some two, and 
slaves to carry them. Our party all encamped exactly 
opposite to them, and some time passed in silence. 
Some of the Ngatiruaka canoes pushed on to Piiki- 
hika, which is but a few miles further up. In the 
course of an hour, during which I was much amused 
by the perseverance of a Tmipo dog, who earned pre- 
sents of tobacco for his master by swimming across 
the river and back, the chiefs of the Patutokoto tribes, 
attended by all their people, pushed across to see their 
relations. They had dressed themselves out in what 
they considered " full fig." Many of the men were 
dressed a 1' Europeenne, with the exception of shoes 
and stockings ; several of the women wore caps or bon- 
