188 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. VII. 
the stockmen and the unreclaimed tribes which hover 
on the outskirts of the pastoral tracts. 
We were baffled for some days off the heads of Port 
Nicholson by strong northerly breezes, the vessel 
being very light, and therefore unable to make much 
progress to windward ; but we at length anchored in 
Lambton Harbour on the 1st of May. 
