•240 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. IX. 
A great many of the natives were employed in 
rafting logs down the river and hjiuling them up the 
bank into the mill-yard, where tramways were laid 
down to carry them to the mill. The forge, the 
residences of the millers and their labourers, iron in 
various shapes, and machinery of all kinds, surrounded 
the bustling scene. Opposite, a shopkeeper from 
Port Nicholson had established a trading store, where 
about 50 natives were loitering and haggling about ; 
and my fat friend Jimmy Jackson was alongside, load- 
ing potatoes into a schooner which he had built at 
2'eau:aiti. 
When we got to Horowenua village, I was much 
struck by the honourable greeting which pf^atanui 
gave to his former enemy. He expressed his gratitude 
to me for having persuaded E Kuru to trust to the 
honour and good faith of Ngatiraukawa. It must 
be remembered that they themselves acknowledged 
that the result of the battle of TVaikanae was entirely 
owing to the bravery and resolution of K Kuru and 
his followers. There was to me a great pleasure in 
this power of my friendship with both parties to 
reconcile them with each other, although they had 
been deadly enemies before. I felt that the natives 
themselves would appreciate the value of a mutual 
confidence, which thus became the means of making 
all friends between themselves who were friends of 
the same White man. And I was assured of the 
reality of the respect which both parties entertained 
for me, by the fact that they so cordially accepted my 
mediation. 
TVatanui was, perhaps, one of the native chiefs who 
best appreciated the value of the M'hite man's presence 
and brotherhood. He had adopted the Christian faith 
very warmly; but without in the least injuring his 
