Friday Nov. 5th. 1847. Having succeeded beyond my expectations with the Waitara natives in obtaining information respecting their land and aware that this visit is in reality a favourable commencement as the most obstinate conceive their rights are gone. I may finish my town and Taranaki work by in the first place going to litirangi that the natives may see I intend to claim that far. In the morning a taua from Puketapu came to the Pah to take off a woman named Mata for an alleged curse against Te Whaitere Katatori. The curse seems to have been an expression she made use of respecting a fine bill hook which he has and which natives told her he kept in such order for killing Europeans. She said it must be rather to kill