comfortably. From there we came to Waimareno, where we found a very zealous set of natives, with an excellent man as teacher, named Hakepa; the natives under his tuition being more advanced than at any place at Taupo we had been to. After schooling them for an hour or two, we came on to the Matuteri Maniapoto's place, where we found the natives in a sad state of backwardness, arising principally from the want of a clergyman amongst them and I could not but observe that in the short time we had with them how charming they were in their manner towards us, occasioned by Mr. Taylor's and my lectures