which accorded more with his heathenish propensities. Having allowed him to go the full length of his ire on different matters. I very quietly replied to all he said, reproving him, in the first instance, for want of hospitality; which I told him he could not have inherited from his progenitors, and which ill became him to a stranger who wished him well, and would take no undue advantage of any liberality he might have bestowed; that my endeavours would be to expose such conduct wherever I went, as well as mediate and prevent the hostile movements in which he wished to act a conspicuous part. What seemed to have brought him quickly to a better feeling, was my refusal in accepting anything from him; and removing myself and people to some distance from his settlement; where some of the natives who had returned from the bush with one of their Chiefs, came down with a fine roasted pig and plentiful supply of vegetables of different kinds. We procured a guide for Taupo, very much to Rawiri's mortification; who, instead of assuming the Chieftain carriage when he came in the morning to bid me good-bye, crouched his head in his blanket, and looked more abashed than his meanest slave. Started early in the morning. Frost intensely severe. Natives sadly complaining of such