ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. 
CHAPTER I. 
Bridle-road — Wreck — Taupo War-Party — The Rev. Octavius Had- 
field — Proofs of his worth as a Missionary — Wanganui — The 
process of becoming a Store-keeper — The feudal attachment of 
the Natives secured by trading — Pig-hunting — Dogs-— E 
KurtHs ardour for the chase — Troublesome Natives — Conduct 
of Mr. Matthews, a Missionary Catechist — He is justly reproved 
by E Kuru — Missionary, Heathen, and civilized Natives — 
Waitotara — Inhospitality — Panic of Natives on first seeing a 
Horse — Amazement — The Country about Wanganui — Climate 
like the South of Spain — Winds — Showers — Lawlessness — Pig- 
stealing — Den of thieves — Wreck of the Sandfly. 
Towards the end of May, I sent the Sandfly on to 
Kapiti, and started to join her by land ; wishing to 
see the progress of the road, and to visit the wreck 
of the Jewess. I was accompanied by Lieutenant 
Thomas, who had engaged in the survey department 
of the Company's service, and was proceeding to TVan- 
ganui by land to assist Mr. Carrington in the com- 
pletion of the survey, with five or six additional 
labouring-men. The bridle-road had been completed 
to the distance of about seven miles from Port Nichol- 
son ; and from thence we pushed on by a rough sur- 
veyor's line till we reached the old path from Pitone. 
We slept at Parramatta ; and the next day I travelled 
on to the wreck, Mr. Thomas staying to collect some 
of his things still remaining at the whaling station. 
The Jewess had been driven ashore on the «and, 
only about half-a-mile north of the rocky coast. I 
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