level land, with some few pine trees and an immense quantity of carrawau wh. made it difficult to proceed at any sort of speed. Soon after came to an open space and it was now time to pitch our tent. Turned out at day break sent a native up a tree close to the tent reported the Mountain to be S. and B. E. and as far from us as the Sugar loaves were from the Wiha. The soil on examination was very deep in fine black soil with a dark brown subsoil, it now commenced raining heavily with every appearance of a wet day, but the Natives prognosticated more favorably. At 7 O'Clock proceeded again on our journey and in a very short time came to one of the finest flats we have yet seen in New Zealand with very little heavy timber. Crossed 2 small gullies with sand stone bottoms and water running to the Westward. Noticed the berries to be much riper here than at New Plymouth from wh. we considered it warmer and from the immense quantity of Moss wh. had been increasing ever since we left the 1st nights resting place and wh. here hangs to the length of several inches from the branches the rain appeared to be much more frequent here than at the Settlement. Another hour's walk took us across a small stream running N. W. wh. the natives called Tabawai but we thought it more likely to be the Enui after wh. we ascended a rising ground of great extent and of the finest description with an occasional pine of Gigantic size other timber thin and light, the land in this neighbourhood was finely adapted for agricultural purposes, skirted a smallbrook wh. apparently rose in a S. S. W. direction. A light rain falling all the morning up to 11 O'Clock A.M. followed the same course thro precisely the same beautiful district when it came on to rain heavily from the S.E. and we pitched our tent. Pig marks everywhere seen and from their late appearance must have made off on hearing us approach. The bush in this place being thin and light, some fine shooting may be obtained by the assistance of pig dogs found several of their nests under Rota stumps. The rain continuing all yesterday afternoon