them for food; not for ourselves, but our faithful attendants; and as we offered and intended to make a payment for what we had, they must have no further excuse, but provide an immediate supply of food. There was general moving round among the old dames, and one was blaming the other for inhospitality, till they had all shared the same stigma in turn, when it turned out that they were all to blame, and each desirous that they should be considered liberal;- a good supply was furnished, of Tutu wine and potatoes for our natives, for which we gave some tobacco, and left there, for Waimate. On the way we met Mr. Skevington's servant, and a woman belonging to New Plymouth, returning, who carried letters back for us, that we had written on our hats and