this man as to his indentions and prospects, I found he entertained many extravagant notions of his own ingenuity, which might lead a person unaquainted with such characters to infer that he was a demi-God amongst the natives; which he attributed to his skill in repairing their guns and box-locks; which good qualities were in fact confined to his own imagination. I could afterwards perceive the natives treated him with the greatest indifference, perhaps less so from his extreme indolence, than the meanest of their slaves. Nor could I but regret the contempt by which we became involved, by dissolute characters of this description, being allowed to remain at large among the natives, diffusing and breeding discord towards the British Government. This man's companion came openly up to my tent door, and in His Irish accent, expressed himself highly pleased at meeting his old master. "Och, sure Sir; whin I heard it was your dearself, I came right to see you, and the best employer I had in New Zealand; and sure. Sir, I have quite given up the drink, though many a good quill-full you used to allow me. And sure, Sir, I niver got any money since I left you, till I seraped up with that Yankee partner of mine, strutting about in his long gown." From pounds in real gilt, which he took out of his cap to show me, - distant as the period was since he was