Thursday, 21 May, 1846. At break of day I heard my native servant "Te Mairo" or wild man of the woods busy about my tent getting a fire on as he said for his Matua or Father and sweeping the foreground shortly after Sambo or Wm. comes with dry clothes and a cup of tea. Foggy weather longer in bed than usual. Rise up with a happy and contented mind thankfull for the bountiful provisions of a divine Providence a crowd of natives seated outside the tent relating yesterdays adventure and the swiftness with which I ran through the fern leaving them behind tho one or two of them could have passed me they gave a credit that might have been for themselves. At 12 A.M. Mr. Whites surveying party return to our encampment after a fatiguing journey the preceding day wet and hungry got on with the main boundary without interruption two of the natives sticking well by them throughout the day and working well Deightons knowledge of the (Language Maori) usefull himself active and willing dined at 1 P. M. Mr. White goes on with the line at Kaiwaki and we came down to Upokongaro meeting a canoe pulled by oars like a whaleboat with steer oar heard guns firing a report that they were fired in consequence of old Heuheu the chief of Taupo being capsized in a canoe as fearing he might be