by the chiefs.  To those who by Too-gee’s account were epodis (subaltern chiefs), and well known to him, I gave some chissels, hand-axes, and other articles equally acceptable.  A traffic soon commenced.  Pieces of old iron hoop were given in exchange for abundance of manufactured flax, cloth, patoo-patoos, spears, talc ornaments, paddles, fish-hooks, and lines.  At seven in the evening they left us, and we made sail with a light breeze at west, intending to run for the Bay of Islands (which we understood was Too-gee’s residence,) and from which we were twenty-four leagues distant.  At nine o’clock a canoe with four men came alongside, and jumped on board without any fear.  The master of the Britannia being desirous to obtain their canoe, the bargain was soon concluded (with Too-gee’s assistance) much to the satisfaction of the proprietors, who did not discover the least reluctance at sleeping on board, and being carried to a distance from their homes.  Our new guests very satisfactorily corroborated all the circumstances that Too-gee had heard before.  After supper Too-gee and Hoo-doo asked the strangers for the news of their country since they had been taken away.  This was complied with by the four strangers, who began a song, in which each of them took a part, sometimes using fierce and savage gestures, and at other times sinking their voices, according to the different passages or events that they were relating.  Hoo-doo, who was paying great attention to the subject of their song, suddenly burst into tears, occasioned by an account which they were giving of the T’Souduckey tribe having made an irruption on Teer-a-witte (Hoo doo’s district) and killed the chief’s son with thirty warriors.  He was too much affected to hear more; but retired into a corner of the cabin, where he gave vent to his grief, which was only interrupted by his threats of revenge.

Owing to calm weather, little progress was made during the night.  At daylight on the 13th, a number of canoes were seen coming from the hippah; in the largest of which was thirty-six men and a chief, who was standing up making signals with great earnestness.  On his coming alongside, Too-gee recognised the chief to be Ko-to-ko-ke, who is the etiketica, or principal chief of the hippah whence the boats had come the preceding evening.  The old chief, who appeared to be about seventy years of age, had not a visible feature, the whole of his face being tatooed with spiral lines.  At his coming on board he embraced Too-gee with great affection; Too-gee then introduced me to him; and after the ceremony of ‘ehong-i,’ i.e. joining noses, he took off his ah-a-how, or mantle, and put it on my shoulders.  In return I gave him a mantle made of green baize, and decorated with broad arrows.  Soon after seven, other canoes, with upwards of twenty men and women in each, came alongside.  At Too-gee’s desire the poop was ‘eta-boo,’ i.e. all access to it by any others than the old chief forbidden.