friendly towards us. By 5 o'clock we got to mimi River, where the Tapu commenced. Waitara, the principal, seemed cool towards us at first; but after my conversation, he appeared to change in countenance, and said he was pleased with all that was said. What about me? I might go where liked, even on to Auckland. My conversation was to point out that Europeans ought never to be stopped from going wherever they wished; that they must distinguish them from themselves; and not being implicated, he ought, and all of them ought, to see them forwarded on their journey, appealing to his feelings by relating Tapu's that I had done away with amongst great Chiefs in the Island, whose example he ought to follow. After all was agreed, some of the people of his place agreed