be ready to start with me, with the payment for Taonui's curse. They accordingly collected in cash, £8.9.8, two single guns, 100 figs tobacco, 4 "Tara" punamas, 4 handkerchiefs, 2 round abouts, one axe. There were 6 or 7 of the Waitara natives, with whose conduct I was much pleased, along with us, carrying the articles above mentioned. We travelled with tolerable speed, having come from the Henui to Waitara in 2 1/4 hours, leaving Waitara five minutes after 10, and getting to Onairo, a distance of 8 miles, at five to 12; where we had to remain till a quarter to three, waiting the tide. We came to Urunui at 4 p.m. a native having come from the Taniora with us, to see us ferried across the Urenui river. Throughout, the natives were most attentive and