Wanganui 28th. Aug. 1848. My dear McLean, We arrived here all safe on Tuesday last after a tolerably pleasant journey, we had a few adventures by the way, but nothing to speak of, one of the Natives left us at Woons and we could not get another to replace him, so we had to put the on the mule and trudge along the best we could, we reached Skinners on Saturday afternoon when the other Maurie left us. On Monday Skinner put us across the river one at a time his canoe being too small to contain more than two. Not a Maurie in the pah at Patea, they had all gone inland to some work; when we arrived at Tehou we found the Natives had deserted