Thursday, 14 May, 1846. Early preparations in the morning for starting up the river the weather continues favourable for our surveying native reserves. Started up the river about 10 A.M. in three partys Mr. Symonds and White in Mr. Taylors canoe with Mawae Mr. Cameron Nixon and myself in Maketus canoe and a third canoe of the Patutokotoko tribe headed by Ngapara the river looked beautiful and something very characteristic of native ambition ensued one canoe striving with the other with the chief of each standing in a graceful posture in the centre of his canoe reciting a canoe song as they went along and shaking a tomahawk or spear over the heads of the pullers if they happened to relax in pulling on the scene cannot be justly dealt with in the bare notice of events that the bustle of moving from station to station requires when settling Land questions. We got to Rangitauiras and found that old gent seated on an elevated wata or store house platform he spoke to us in a friendly tone with occasional hints of a sarcastic nature as to what Europeans ultimately intedded doing he spoke of Tirawake and said he sold his land to him, that he did