Turanga-nui 7th. May, 1866 My dear Sir, I write you in a great hurry to tell you that I am here with some of my men, having come overland from the Wairoa. Ipropose returning with them on Wednesday next. We had a very hard time of it, two days without food, and were obliged at last to kill and eat a foal. The friendly natives at the Wairoa would not accompany us after proposing and volunteering to do so, so I determined to