to fulfil the agreeable obligation you placed me under. I had a most delightful and pleasant journey coming along the coast without however any particular adventures to amuse you. Instead I do not think I had any. On Sunday I spent the day at the little inn at the Rangitikei heads. Mr Park, Capt Daniel & others rode up the Rangitikei Plains leaving me and my few companions to our solitary meditations and reflections in the midst of these I had resolved to write a long letter to you yesterday morning but how often may we be disappointed in carrying out our fondest resolutions before daylight roused