now being occupied by the natives, that have been lying waste for years; but I regret to find that they are all under fears of the Taupo tribes, and are fortifying their Pahs when they ought to be employed planting and sowing, but cannot be divested of the fears they are under. Got from Wairua at half past eight in the morning, dined at Umuroa; find all the natives greatly taken up with the new tikanga, several of them asserting that they had seen the Almighty; and others of them that disbelieved this folly, wished very much to see Mr. Taylor and Bollard on the subject. Wrote from Otumatua to the latter gentleman, where I slept that night; and had a long conversation with Hori Kiwi and Tamari the chief.