On Monday this day fortnight about 1/2 past 4 p.m. I in company with 2 other whitemen named John Foster and James McKenzie left my house which is situated at the Routa Mangatauria in a canoe and went to a settlement called Maria Maria slept there that night and next day at 12 noon we left there and went up the River within 2 miles of Pi Ti settlement there was in our company 2 natives and 1 native girl - they said they they had been to see the Governor and that they were to come in again in a fortnight the 2 men were tattooed and the tallest had a Panama hat on, we then went on to the whare of Rehina it was raining and we stopped there that night and next day we went to Koopa Koopa to see a mill we remained their 2 days and than pulled about 6 miles of Ashwells and started about 12 noon the next day for the Kings place we were told that their was a whiteman a head of us in a canoe with 2 natives they had no sail in their canoe but we had and we had a fair wind from Mr. Ashwells to the Kings place we over took them at sunset at the Kings place they all jumped on shore and left a native girl in charge of the canoe we ran against their canoe in which their was some Gund, ammunition and caps of which this is a sample. I then said pull on to the next landing place where I went ashore with a letter from a half cast to Tomy to inform him of the the price of flour at Waiuku and that he would return in a fortnight or three weeks, I asked them if they would let me sleep their that night he said yes, and got us some Potatoes cooked and we had supper and went to bed and I had only been in bed about 1/2 an hour when Tomy came to me and said I want to speak to you outside I got up and went with him around by King Potatau's grave he took me into the Pa in which their was 2 other natives - he asked me why I looked into the canoe as I passed I said I thought it was the canoe of a man I was in search of - he asked me what I saw their I told him some guna and a box he asked me if I knew the man I said no, he then asked me if I or my mates intended going back to Mangatawiri, I told him we were going up to George Skidmores mill for to repair the dressing machien and rase a wheel and to get from George Skidmore the key of the mill at Koopa Koopa. Tomy then told me I must not got up to the mill at George Skidmores untill he had seen Tangray and the King-he sent a note to Targray and I was detained untill he got an answer back this was on Friday and Targray came on the Sunday they held a meeting that night I was told to go to bed with my mates, and 2 natives slept with me in Tomys whari I had been in bed 2 hours when Tomy came in again and took me to the Pa again, they asked me there if I would stay at Narawhaie (the king's place) I told them I had left my wife at Mangatawere, they said they would go and fetch her in a canoe and all the things in my house they asked me to write a note to her which I refused they asked me if I was a We We I said yes, they asked me if I would supply them with powder I said I have non but I know a We We in Auckland that has Powder and will sell it. They asked me his name and I said John Robinson they asked me to write a Letter to him and I refused I told them I would come to Auckd. and see him and return again, they would not allow me to come, they asked me for my Box and things that I had got - they asked me if I would stay at Narawhia or go on to Taranaki I told them I had to repair a Mill at Mr. Skidmores they said they would go down with me. Tomy, his son and the wife went with me I slept in the whare with them the next day I repaired the mill and received the key of the mill at Koopa Koopa and told Tomy I was ready to go back to Koopa Koopa he said yes you must go back to the Kings whari with us first I went with them and they asked me to go with them again to the Pa which I did they told me I should not be allowed to leave their where I was untill they had another meeting that night after that meeting they told me I should not leave their at all they would send and fetch my wife. I said I would stop but I did not want them to send for my wife, they asked me to go down to the Pa again their was Pen Ink and paper for me to write to Robinson of Auckland I told them he would not supply them with Powder without he saw me, they than searched my Box found this Pistol they took the Pistol and said that 2 Maories would go with me down to the Pa and on the Range on the opposite of the River they went with me to the Pa and maid arrangements for me to come down to Auckland, 2 Maories were to stop in my house my wife untill I returned from Auckland with the Frenchman they got 2 horses 1 for me and for a native and we went to Tauranga on the East Coast to see the place where the Powder was to be landed we went their and saw the place and returned and arranged that the next day we were to go to Auckland but I told them that they were Kings natives they came with me and one of them brought a letter with him to show the We We that it was from William King of Taranaki to the King at the Waikato he wrote in the letter he gave me who the white men were that was Kapi who had supplied them with Powder from Auckland and Waiuku and would fite for them they went to see this French man at Mangatetere to see if he is the Frenchman that supplied them before on the East Coast and to see if he is a man they can trust - Tomy showed me about £250 in money he told me that £120 was given to them by a man who committed a Forgery when he was keeping a Public House in Auckland to put him out of the way of the Police and to forward him on to Wellington one of the Natives said he had seen the white man that gave him the £120 in Taranaki with the Frenchman. Tomy than told me he would give me all the money and a cargo of wheat when the vessell came around with the Powder thy same as they gave the We We that came before. The Money and Wheat would be at Turangi that they were going to send 2 sailors that ran away from a man of war and 2 half casts 2 black men to Sydney in a vessell to purchase powder, they also told me that they had received 60 Riffles a Big gun landed on the East Coast from a French Whaler and that as soon as we deliver the Guns and Powder we are to go and stop with them at Tomys whara and that they would give me a Bridle and Sadle - on Thursday last we came from the King's place to Koopa Koopa me and 2 natives named Timothy and Whara and my Mate Foster who is now at my place waiting for my return which is to be in 3 days from Saturday last at which time if I am not back they will take my wife and things up with them they sent a letter by a native directed to a Maori and a half cast the half casts name is George Keating to keep a look out for me when I got to Town. The natives at Pakina told the natives that came down with me that Sharnack was a government man at youngs and that I was not to call in their but to leave my horse with Mr. Blake thy 2 natives left me at the 1st. Bridge this side of Mr. Youngs of Drury. I next stoped at Otahuhu until last evening at dusk when I left and came to Auckd. and called at the Govt. house from where I was brought by 2 Policemen last night. I forgot to state that the last time I was at Ngaruwhahe I saw in the Pa 14 kegs of Powder which they say they got from a French Whaler. Tuma and Whara and Timothy told me that they are intended to attack Auckland in a months time they say when WM. Kings Pa is taken they will than come to take Auckland they will come down the Waikato to Pi ta they will follow the range to Paparoa and from Paparoa over the range to above Otahu near the scotch church than come to Auckland and take all the Powder that is in Auckland they intend coming in at night they will be a bush behind Otahuhu and when its dark they will come on to Auckland they say they have spies in Auckland and there to let them Know when there is but a few soldiers in Auckland and that the will attack it.