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by Rangihaeata had not been daunted by their first 
faihire. They had at length found a spot, on a large 
tributary of the Km Wat'a fWara, fit for the erection 
of a mill ; and it was now at work. 
In the bottom of a thickly wooded valley, only ac- 
cessible over a steep ridge, a natural fall in the nar- 
row rocky gully of the stream afforded great facilities 
for erecting a dam. A platform and rough shed 
extended from side to side of the gully over the dam- 
head ; the wheel and machinery were working under- 
neath ; and two or three circular saws were kept in 
constant employment. The open sides of the work- 
shop displayed this curious work of art in the midst 
of nature's wildest scenery. Two trees mingled their 
branches overhead above the rough mill, and several 
others seemed to grow out of the pool formed by the 
dam underneath their arching boughs. The stern 
craggy sides of the gully might be imagined to frown 
upon so strange a neighbour as the fretting wheel. 
Two or three log-huts under the forest sent up their 
curl of smoke ; while the neat housewives, with their 
flaxen-haired children, stood at the doors to receive 
with joyful pride the praises bestowed by visitors on 
the untiring industry of their husbands. 
Captain Daniell had found a spot in this valley 
suitable for a farm ; and while others were agitating 
and calling upon the Company to make more roads, 
each to his own section, he had himself engaged 
some labourers to make a bridle-road from Kai TVara 
Wara up to his discovery, which cost him about 
30/. The millers, who became tenants of his with 
certain rights as to cutting timber, continued the 
road to the mill. It was afterwards found that Cap- 
tain Daniell's bridle-road might be continued into 
that leading to Porirua, so as to avoid some hundred 
