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boys should follow with, their loads in another trip. 
I thanked him for his courtesy ; but, suspecting that 
this sudden civility could not be genuine, I sent Smith 
and the boy who had got his things first, remaining 
myself with the one who had got mine. 
By the time the canoe was half-way across, some of 
the young men began hinting to me that a suitable 
present of money would be very desirable from me to 
the chief. As he acquiesced in this view, I took five 
shillings out of my pocket, turned round to him, 
and laid them on the log between us. " As you wish 
*' to make a bargain of your courtesy to a guest," said 
I, " there is a shilling for each of us, and one over ; I 
" should only have paid four to go in the boat of the 
"White tiitua (common man). 
He would not take it up, however, at first ; and said, 
that all other passengers that were rangatira, or chiefs, 
had given him " money gold " (sovereigns or half- 
sovereigns) for ferrying them across. He instanced 
" Wide-awake," and the three other gentlemen who 
had returned with their horses some days before me. 
" You ought to make a large present," said he, " in 
" consideration of your great name." I was firm, how- 
ever, and when the canoe came back he told me to 
get in. 
But the man who had guided it across demanded a 
shilling for himself as we were going to embark. I 
threw one to him, and was shouting the customary 
farewell, when another man came up and asked two 
shillings more, as the owner of the canoe. I refused ; 
he called some of the bystanders, and hauled the canoe 
up high and dry on the bank. 
I took no notice of this insult. Waving my hand 
to Smith, I shouted to him, in Maori, to proceed with- 
out me. Haere ki Poniki ! " Go to Port Nicholson ! " 
