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came to the conclusion that Matiakau Harbour would be the best site for a settlement. He also resolved to :< gain the chiefs and the mission]-* varies, , ' which, once n.ccomp'i bed he •would have formed n confederation of the qhiefs with which alone ho would have treated in buying land, ft is a pity he did not ca.rry out - these good resolutions. At least they are evidence, Avith the proposal for ample native reserves, 'that the New ' Zealand Company by no means in. tended to neglect native interests, a as the British Government imagined A Dangerous Experiment During the voyngc discussion muit turned on hypnotism, or "magnetism, i' as it used to be called. Jerningham Wakefield "magnetised ,, Heaphy who became "hysterical and finally a maniac. ,, Heaphy recovered after about four hours. This singular -experiment was later repeated with nearly the same effect on the unfortunate subject. Another some., what untoward event was a curious delusion developed by poor Nayt\, who had begun the voyage very d.ill -and thoughtful. Two months later ~Na,yti refused to eat meals with the cabin party, because he believed that whenever they spoke of an ali batross they covertly referred to him • The long voyage was apparently telling on his nerves. Land Ho! Tt Avas at noon on lfith August, 1838, after a remarkably quick pas- *■*"* sage that those on the Tory sighted the West Coast of "Tavai Poenamoo"* 'the South Island. They had made their landfall at approximately the same place as Abel T:>sman nearly two hundred years before. The Tory heralded an epoch quite as C -definitely as the historic voyage of the Dutch discoverer.