a crew of well dressed young Natives came down to take us up to the Pa where we found about 150 assembled on the beach to welcome us waving their blankets and shawla and as we approached the beach they all joined chorus and in a very animated manner repeated their song of welcome. After the usual ceremony of sitting down in perfect silence like statues was over, it being Maori etiquette for the people of the place to speak first, Manuwiri the head of the pwder robbers an old man of 60 with an aquiline nose, thin lips and sharp features and a keen eye got up and went through the formal ceremony of welcome without making any particular allusion to the robbery. Paratene replied in a good speech cautioning