native, may, without impropriety, be inserted in my private journal. Hemara followed, with some slight variations, in the same strain. The last of our Taranaki party was Matthew, the second chief of Waikanae, a fine young man, well disposed, and very much under my guidance. He spoke well and to the point; and repeated that he was now one of Maclean's sons; and repeated a piece of poetry in favour of parting with the land to the Europeans. William King said that he would go with the first fair wind to Taranaki, the land of his fathers;... and would not part with any of it to the Europeans.