22 Jany [1851] Ahuriri is an exceedingly dull place. The best thing about it is that you jump out of your bedroom window into the Bay & have a nice refreshing bathe before your eyes are quite open in the morning. It is quite a place for early hours. In the course of the week I intend taking a trip to the north of this where I may have a chance of again writing you. I have just finished a great number of letters for home but I fear as the Rose schooner has come in sight that I will not have time to write to Taranaki although I have several letters to