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a pair of nail-nippers, probably mistaking them for a 
tinder-box and a bullet-mould. The old chief, on dis- 
covering this when the party returned to their homes, 
paid the thief two blankets, a cloak, and a double- 
barrelled gun, to get the things back, and then sent 
them to E Kuru, who gave them to me. 
It is worthy of record, that the Taupo natives, on re- 
turning to their home, carried with them the bones of 
their late chief Tauteka in much state. Wherever 
these bones had rested, a carved post or other monu- 
ment was erected to commemorate the event. In the 
midst of the space which had been occupied by Heulieu 
and his party among the white settlers, on their pas- 
sage either way through the place, a small canoe, 
stuck upright and adorned with carving and painted 
designs, showed where Tauteka s remains had stopped 
on their way. This custom bears a curious resem- 
blance to that of our Edward, who erected crosses at 
Tottenham, Waltham, and other places, to mark the 
progress of his queen's corpse. 
The Putikiwaranui natives plundered a considerable 
quantity of the goods which they had persuaded some 
of the settlers to place under their charge during the 
visit, and then exacted very large utu for the care 
which they had taken of them. A body of mihanere 
natives, engaged by a Mr. Nixon to remove his goods 
back to his house in their canoes, took a sudden fancy 
to a cask of tobacco which was among them. Upon 
his refusing to bargain with them for a certain num- 
ber of pigs in exchange for it, they hustled him into 
the water at the landing-place ; and while he was 
thus disabled from resisting, the cask was put into 
another canoe and paddled quickly up the river. They 
paid him for it, at their own price, in pigs, long after- 
wards ; l)ut this was entirely a matter of option with 
them. 
