running through a small patch of timber land, named Pakaraka. Left our encampment at six in the morning, when two natives met us, and informed us that Archdeacon Brown had passed through to Taupo and Heretonga on Tuesday The first little lake we came to is named Mututawa, with a small Pikopo settlement on its banks, with another on an island of the same name in the centre of the lake opposite to which is the Opiha Pa. From thence we had a canoe to take us over the lake, and crossed to Tarawera lake, where Mr. Spencer, an American in Deacon's orders lives. From Tarawera we crossed Okarika and dined there. When we passed through a small patch of forest land were in sight of the Ngai, Mr. Chapman's, to which place we got at about 4 p.m. I met the young man stationed at Maketu, as Assistant Protector, and heard of the arrival of Major