not missionaries though one of the party a tatooed chief acknowledged the justice of my remarks as to our Sunday, but still wished me to enter on matters of business with them. They were from a Pah up the river "Pipiriki" and did not in the least benefit by intercourse with Europeans but what can we expect from the natives when along the beach there were walking about their sawpits some wretched looking and dissolute character of our own country that really made no difference except in so far as refraining from their more laborious toils on the Sunday more than any other day. One of them called to see me whilst I was at breakfast to complain of the group of natives who he said had sold him some logs of timber and were offered a higher price for them elsewhere. The servant told him to call after breakfast when a miserable Barefooted thin ill clad European presented himself covered with dirt and rags of blue cloth and white though I ought to say black duck trousers he was going on with his complaint when I told him that at one period of his life he had been an advisor to others on the Lords day (the poor fellow was ordained at one period as deacon) he ought certainly, however reduced in circumstances, to avoid a profanation of that day that I would early on Monday