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by JVahine iti and one or two " boys" to carry baggage 
and provisions. 
As far as JVenuakura we also travelled in company 
with a New Plymouth settler, who was driving a flock 
of 300 sheep and six or eight bullocks thither from 
Wellington, after a rest of a week at IVanganm. 
From Patea we had a tedious walk along the top of 
high cliffs for 17 miles. There two small rivers break 
the cliff with their gullies, and a pa, called Manawa- 
pou, or " Broken Heart," contains a population of about 
100 of the Ngatiruanui tribe. Nine miles more along 
the foot of the cliffs, the beach being passable at low 
water, brought us to the TVaingongoro, or " Snoring 
Water." 
-'• Here resides a fine old chieftain, who was named 
" Te Pakeke," or " The Grown Man," by the TVaikato 
tribes, from the ingenuity and hardihood which he had 
displayed in escaping from their predatory excursions 
into this part of the country, and in harassing their 
retreats. 
The Agent of the New Plymouth settlement had 
determined to cut a bridle-road inland of Mount Eg- 
mont, to connect New Plymouth with the coast of 
Cook's Strait, somewhere between TVaimate and Patea, 
by an easier and a shorter route than that round the 
coast. This object had at length been effected, not- 
withstanding the opposition of the great body of natives 
on this side, entirely by native labour. 
A Wesleyan missionary residing at Tf^aimate, named 
Skeflington, had made the most strenuous efforts to 
overthrow the scheme ; telling the natives that the 
road was made with a view to seize their lands, and 
that it was nothing but a design upon them which 
ought to be viewed with the utmost suspicion. Ac- 
cordingly, they had refused to allow egress to the road 
at Jf^aimate, Manawapou, or Patea. 
