Kai ivi I deemed it most prudent to land and next morning reached my destination. Arrived I found the Natives anxiously expecting me, and on the following day shewed your Excellency's letter to the principal Chiefs, who avowed themselves most desirous to settle this long pending question, and having requested Mr. McLean to read the enclosed address (Enclosure No. 1) I proceeded to inform them that it behoved them to point out to me the boundaries of the block, as also the limits of their several reserves, which they at once agreed to. They appeared much discontented, with the portions of land set apart for them by Mr. Spain and expressed a desire to retain certain reserves in large blocks, where their cultivations were most frequent. Finding that during the past four years, their cultivations had spread, over the greater portion of the sections, and that the survey of such small patches of land, would occupy a much longer time than I could reasonably afford, I at once consented to this reasonable