on the banks was chiefly Manaoka and Rota, the latter being very unlike those in this settlement, the batts were tall and straight and about 2 ft. 3 in. in diameter and very numerous. We arrived at a native garden about sun set and one of the natives went on to the Pah with a letter of Minerapa's to the principal man in the pah requesting him to allow us to pass without molestation or if we felt disposed to remain their for the night to put us into his house and furnish us with as many potatoes etc. as we required from his stock, but we walked the beach back homewards and arrived in New Plymouth at 3 O'Clock on Sunday Morning. In reading over this Journal, the extreme minutiae we have observed particularly in mentioning the gullies, would almost convey to the mind of a reader an idea of the land over wh. our course has laid being of a broken character, to prevent such an opinion we are enduced to append a sort of summary in wh. we wish more particularly to bring before the reader, that the distance traversed in the zig zag direction we imagine to have made in the bush could not be less than ten miles per day, and then, if the averaged number of gullies be marked, which we have faithfully noticed, it will be seen that as the water is found alone in gullies, there is rather a deficiency than otherwise of this very necessary element for agricultural purposes. Another thing we wish to mention here is that the dense wood wh. mostly opposed our progress and against wh. we find we have been loud in complaint, and wh. perhaps might have a tendency to cause parties to consider that the clearing of this land would be attended with too great an expense we wish to observe that the bush wh. mostly stopped us was the Currawau and other kind of woods wh. the