and deserve to be cultivated. Thursday - 26th Two small native vessels called in for shelter the vessels are owned by the Tawera of Manaia of gun powder notoriety having stolen 100 casks from here the property of the Kawau mining Coy. The natives came to see Sir George who showed them all through the house - the spears meris and other implements besides sketches and other curiosities. They also went round the garden one of them offered to take me to Auckland for £1 but