kumaras for breakfast and as it rained we passed a miserable day amongst dogs, cats and a most dirty set of natives my companion Mr. Willis had a severe headache and by the time the chief arrived in the evening a young lad provided a Pukeko that we boiled amongst some potatoes and drunk the soup which was really good and cured my companions headache. Had a long conversation with Aperahama or Tiapa the acknowledged chief of this tribe who was most indignant at not having been consulted by any of the parties who had previously come to settle the Land question and declared if we confined our meetings and payments to those of Wanganui they should remove the settlers 5 or 6 of whom were settled on their Lands. That he and his tribe the Ngatiapa were the original owners of the Lands from Motukaraka to the Rerenga Mr. Camerons section No. 112 on the map that they were never conquered or removed from their Lands except when fighting other tribes that they owned the lands along the coast formerly but were reduced in number to 200 fighting men. Saturday, 9 May, 1846. We left the settlement of the Wangahus after a breakfast of a couple of Tois and some potatoes the only fare they could procure their guests