bodies, and I have no doubt that at least double the number were killed, as all the bodies we found were on the narrow frn ridge of the forest. A good deal of it was bush fighting, and my people behaved very well, but wasted a great deal of ammunition. We got one wounded man (Kooti's), who said that there were between two and three hundred against us; that Te Heu Heu and Tawharetoa were not in the fight at all, but remained in their position to take care of the women and the children. Master Hohepa, when he got up, cut off the fellow's head; so we did not get so much out of him as we might have! - - - No. 2 A.C. arrived to-day, and we start inland to-morrow. I have had letters from our Arawa friends, who report exactly as above, with the addition that they beheaded all the badies which fell into their hands. I don't like that sort of thing myself. Perhaps they