parting for the time. They bid good-bye in a most feeling manner, and saying, - "We now place ourselves entirely in your hands." Having replied to them that their interests were our study, but that we should act as impartial mediators betwixt them all, we left them and pursued our journey to Kaupukunui, where we had some difficulty to procure food for our natives, there being only a few old women living there, who would not willingly part with any; Keeping all for the opi, or the great body of natives, perhaps 500 in number, that were coining behind. Having shared some of our own stores with our native attendants that night, I went to pay the greedy old ladies a visit in the morning. - and in very plain terms I told them that they were treating us in a very unhospitable manner; when we, in a most friendly manner, asked