1966 - Best, A. D. W. The Journal of Ensign Best, 1837-1843 (Ed. N. M. Taylor) - INDEX, p 440-465

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INDEX

Acheroa, see Akaroa

Adelaide, emigrant ship, to Port Nicholson, 38, 46

Ahirara (Oraruhe), frontier pa, 303

Ahuahu, Whiteley's mission station at Kawhia, 358; (see also Whiteley, J.)

A Huahua, see Ahuahu

Akaroa, Captain Stanley's account of, 241; Catholic bishop at, 271, 272; North Star to, 69; (see also Banks Peninsula)

Albatross, bird, hoped for, 101; Best shoots at, 107, 111, 115; about ship, 108, 116; pinions broken, 118; still no success with, 122; at last Best kills, 123; noble bird but no shot, 130, 131, 136

Albatross, yacht, master goes sailing with Best, 375; Best sleeps aboard, 376; commander ignores signals and shots, 385

Alice, brig, arrives at Norfolk Island, 196; Best visits, 198; leaves island, 199

Allen, -----, drowned at Cloudy Bay, 251

Alligator, HMS, brings troops to Norfolk Island, 33, 213

Alzdorf, Baron C., with Best, 242, 261; ill, 245; gives clothes and food, 270

Anania, Ngati Pou chief in land dispute, 348

Anderson, Joseph, Major, 50th Regiment, commandant on Norfolk Island, 29-31, 183; receives Best, 183; fishing, 187; his farm, 188; at picnic, 191; not at late parties, 198; his child born, 31, 198; his hopes for promotion, 200; criticised by Best, 199, 200, 202, 205, 208; mentioned, 205, 206; lenient to convicts, 29, 208; resigned, 31, 209; depressed, 209, 211

Anderson, Mrs, gives picnics, 186, 188, 191; falls, 188; child born, 31, 198

Angas, G. F., quoted, 256n, 295n, 296n, 297n, 298n

Anna Watson, could not enter Port Nicholson, 261

Ansons Bay, Norfolk Island, 186; cliff-climbing, 192

Aotea, harbour, 288; southern limit of kauri, 288; Turton missionary at, 288; discussions on land and murders at, 288; visited, 288, 357-8, 359

Aotea, see Great Barrier Island

Apihai te Kawau, chief at Manukau, 280; at peace-making, 421

Arama Karaka Te Ngarangara, see Clarke, Adam

Arapetaha, pa on Maungatautari, 300

Arnold, -----, commissariat clerk at Norfolk Island, at picnic, 191; his rowdy party, 197--8; 201, 202, 205; gives over to Turner, 209

Ashwell, B. Y., 59; 428; at Waikato, 285; house at Pukatea, 342; his Taupiri station, 342n

Atako, see Wi Tako

Auckland, founded by Hobson, 45, 237; Best to, 278; Best does not like, 58, 330; newspaper and bank, 321; land sales at, 321, 324, 334; mourns Symonds, 328-9; first horse races, 330-1, 416-7; anniversary celebrations, 331-2; cliques and land sharks, 332, 419; government offices burnt, 358; town depressed and stagnant, 330, 374; cheered by immigrants, 377; excited over Maketu affray, 383

Aurora, emigrant ship, to Port Nicholson, 38, 46; wrecked at Kaipara, 408

Awaitaia, Wiremu Nera (William Naylor), of Whaingaroa, advocates British law, 287; talks with Best at Matamata, 316--7; complains of Te Wherowhero, 356-7

Awaroa River, tidal stream, 284

Awhitu, Manukau Harbour, 283, 337, 338

Awitu, see Awhitu

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Backgammon, played, 83, 84, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 102, 103, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112, 114, 115, 116, 122, 127, 129, 130, 133, 139, 140

Backhouse, J., quoted on chained gang punishment, 24; on flogging at Norfolk Island, 30

Baker, Major R., magistrate of Port Nicholson Council, 39, 40; case against Pearson, 226; at Barrett's dinner, 248; married, 272

Baker, N., Lieutenant-Colonel, 80th Regiment, not found, 145; welcomes Best, 146

Balls Bay, Norfolk Island, 186

Banks Peninsula, French at, 236, 237, 241

Barney Duffys Gully, Norfolk Island, dogs kill cat, 188

Barracks, at Auckland, 54, 278-9; occupied, 323; damaged by squall, 336

Barrett, Dicky, as interpreter, 49; mentioned, 245

Barrett's Hotel, Port Nicholson, opening dinner, 248; mentioned, 272; ball at, 273

Bay of Islands, as harbour, 35; Hobson to, 36; Best to, 216; panorama of, 216; town planned at, 237; (see also Okiato)

Beetles, Best kills, 152; catches, 150, 151, 153, 154, 155, 159; curing, 159, 210; at Port Nicholson, 260; on west coast, 285, 286; 324; 326; collection grows slowly, 327

Bell, T., of Belmont, entertains shooting party, 174-5; brother lends Best fine horse, 176-7

Belligny, S. C. de, at Port Nicholson, 257, 258

Bellini, see Belligny

Bengal Merchant, emigrant ship to Port Nicholson, 38, 46

Berrey, P., of Auckland, 375; witness case of injured horse Monops, 431

Berrima, New South Wales, Best to, 148, 150

Best, A. D. W., parents, 13, 81, 83n, 148; education, 13; military rank, 13, 35, 58; on his journal, 13-4, 67, 79-80, 83, 89, 106, 173-4, 195, 211; aboard James Pattison, 13-4, 74-143; fellow voyagers, 74-5; in command, 78; seasick, 82-3, 89, 91-2; birthday, 82; begins shooting, 83; on difficulties of discipline, 86; sees Madeira, 87-8; discovers shower bath, 89; sees whale, 89; changes coat for tropics, 90; on phosphorescent sea, 92; on convict flogging, 95, 106, 108; shoots first bird, 97; drinks tea, 98; gunman-ship, 97, 98, 100; on Southern Cross, 98; tries quadrant and sextant, 99; monotony, 101; dolphins and sharks, 104-5; shooting routine, 106-7, 108; first albatross, 107; home thoughts, 113, 138; appalled by 'man overboard', 114, 127-8; on careless guard, 116, 117; critical of Bridge, 90, 108, 118, 120; tries to reduce chart of ship's track, 116; shocked by captain, 120; enjoys ship's danger, 122-3; makes index, 126, 129; moonlit sails, 133; leak in prison, 141-2; end of voyage, 143; on Sydney, 143, 144; hard march to Windsor, 145-6; cholera 147; animals, birds, etc., 147, 158, 161-2; Windsor to Berrima, 148-51; sees prison stockades, 149, 150; wool drays and pressing, 150, 156; lonely Razor Back hills, 150; on court martial, 151; Best's drawing and painting, 153, 154, 155, 196; friendship with Smyth, 153, 154; juror duties, 160-1; on convicts, 14-15, 18-19, 160-4, 201-2; 'currency' hostile to red coats, 164, 168; disastrous St. Patrick's ball, 166-7, 204; on promotion, 168, 206, 259; military flogging, 170; wild fowl chase, 171-2; hot cross buns, 172; end of MS. Vol. 1, 174; wallaby hunt, 174-5; admirable levee, 175-6; J. C. Best and his picnic, 177; embarking for Norfolk Island, 179-80; McDonald comedy, 180-2; at Norfolk Island, 28-32, 182-214; fear of stoutness, 184; hunting cats, 184, 188, 187, 189; duties, 185; quarters, 185; long ride, 186; picnics, 186, 188, 191; balls, 187-8, 189; to Phillip Island, 186-7, 190, 194, 201; 'one year over', 191; track-cutting on Mount Pitt, 191-2; mail-getting, 194; lively parties, 196-8; fever, 198-200; cholera, 203; hates Norfolk Island, 206; mutiny of troops, 32-34, 213, 259; to New Zealand, 35, 215; affair of Kororareka, 217-9; impressed by Pomare, 220; to Port Nicholson, 40, 223-5; good relations with Maoris, 54; views on Maoris and British law, 228, 275, 287, 296, 298-9, 393, 399; sick of Port Nicholson, 235, 242-3, 259; gardening there, 237, 242, 257, 259, 260, 272; feels earthquake, 244; flooring whare, 247-8; to Port Underwood, 249-54; to Waikanae, 254; to Ship Cove, 255, 257; to Te Awaiti, 255-6; to Wairarapa, 261-70; on Maori skill in canoes, 262, 263, 396-7; on Maori hospitality, 263, 265-6; rubs up French, 272; organises anniversary, 272, 276; fight with Ohariu natives, 273-5; M. C. at dances, 276; rides in races, 276-7; goes to Auckland, 278; to Manukau, 280-1; off with Dieffenbach and Symonds, 57, 282; at Waikato

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Heads, 286; admires Maori girls, 67-8, 286, 307, 357-8, 435-6; at Whaingaroa, 286-7; at Aotea, 288; at Kawhia, 288-90; sore leg, 291, 302, 320; at Otawhao, 294-9; drama of Te Waru, 298-9; anxious to reach Taupo, 305; happy there, 307-9; enjoys singing parties, 308, 333; leaves Taupo sadly, 312; at Matamata, 316-17; canoe down Piako, 317-18; to Coromandel, 319; boat to Auckland, 320; buys land, 324, 334; friendship with Colonel Godfrey, 325, 335; laments death of Symonds, 329; anticipates action against Maoris, 330, 336; treasurer for races, 330; his horse, Miss Starch, in races, 331, 416-17; in boat race, 332; on land sharks, 332; on death penalty, 333; journey with Hobson, 59-61, 337-60; attitude to Hobson, 61, 282, 328, 349, 356, 359, 375; activities with E. Shortland, 59, 338, 340, 341, 344, 346, 426-7; by canoe up Waikato, 340, 341, 342; at Kaitotehe, 343-5; at Whatawhata, 346, 426-7; approaches to Otawhao ridiculous, 349; moved by tangi, 350; climbs Kakepuku, 350-1; to Kopua, 353; Whaingaroa, 356-7, 359; Aotea, 357, 359; Kawhia, 358; back to Auckland, 360; on Taraia inquiry, 62-3, 361-73; with Taraia, 364-5; at Coromandel, 365-6; at Tauranga, 367-73; no missionary interest in ancient Maori religion or origins, 368-9; collects songs and speeches, 322, 350, 369; talks to priest, 370-1, 372, 373; Maoris accept government interference, 373; to Auckland, 374; mourns for Governor, 374-5; picnics, 375-6; on Maori origins, 376; to Great Barrier Island, 378-9; to Tauranga, 380; to examine defences of Maketu, 381, 384-5; to Auckland to fetch troops, 385-6; on course of tribal wars, 388; making camp, 389, 391; kindly to Maoris, 389, 394, 397-8, 398; in conflict between Bunbury and W. Shortland, 387, 389-90; justified suspicions of Tupaia, 390, 391; joins fishing party, 396-8; Tohi's appeal to, 399; after Wairau massacre, 68-9; to India, 69-71, 399-400; his death, 70

Best, Hon. J. C., Captain, 50th Regiment, Best meets, 165-6; leaves, 167; his visit and famous picnic, 177-8; mentioned, 175, 176, 179; letter from, 209; drowned, 313

Best, 'Mrs', at Tauranga, 68; Selwyn on, 68, 435-6

Best, R. E. B., sister, 15, 174; 'Rosa' at Taupo, 309

Bidwill, J. C., Best meets off Waikanae, 254; climbed Ngauruhoe, 254n, 310

'Bigfellow', chief at White's Bay, 251

Bishop, French Catholic, at Port Nicholson, 271; with Best, 272; returns to Akaroa, 272, 279n

Blackett, of Albatross yacht, refuses to speak to Victoria, 385

Blenheim, brings emigrant Scots to Port Nicholson, 271

Blessington, Lady, writings despised, 335

Blow Hole, Norfolk Island, 184

Boatswain, of James Pattison, yams, 94, 96; humane flogger, 95; harpooning black fish, 96; regrets Neptune did not come aboard, 97; warns of shark's teeth, 105; flogs boy, 108; drunk, 112; quoted, 125, 126, 130

Booby, brown gannet, not seen, 88; Best shoots, 97, 98

Books, read by Best, Disraeli's Vivian Grey, 77, 81; Lyell's Principles of Geology, 78, 84, 85, 86; finished first volume, 87, 90, 91, 94, 97; on Lamarck theory of progressive development, 100, 101; finished second volume, 101; 103, 108; neglected, 116; taken up, 118; 'capital standby', 123; 124, 125, 127, 133; Byron, 84, 88; Don Juan, 89, 90, 91, 93, 101; pleased with Siege of Corinth, 103, 185; Tom Cringle's Log, 85, 88, 89; Adventures of a Naval Officer, 89; Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (J. J. Morier), 154; 'Colonel Hawker's Instructions to Young Sportsmen', 158, 159, 160; Physics, by Neil Arnott, 165, 168; 'Diary of a late Physician', 169, 170; Brambletye House (Horace Smith), 173; The Pirate and the Three Cutters (F. Marryat), 185; 'Bingleys Animal Biography', 195; 'Bruces Travels', 200; 'Three Years in Canada, by McTaggart', 201, 203; 'Diedrick Knickerbocker in his History of New York', 204; Baron Denon's Voyages dans la basse et la haute Egypte, translation of, 206; condemned, 206-7; Travels in North and Central Africa, 1822-24, by Denham, Clapperton, and Oudney, 207; 'Life of Frederick the Great and an account of the Great Plague and some of Miss Edgeworths works and Byron', 242; Manfred, comments on, 247; Edinborough Reviews, 248; Don Juan at Maungatautari, 300; Lady Blessington's books, 335

Bowen, -----, of HMS Tortoise, 378

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Boyle, Captain of Governor Phillip, 179; inefficient, 181-2; 211

Brian, see Brien

Bridge, Lieutenant, his regiment, 73; mentioned, 74; described, 75; ashore, 76, 77, 78; shoots unsuccessfully, 85; reprimands Shearing, 86; 'quantum of jaw', 90, 120; pacifies quarrels, 91; inquires into trafficking with convicts, 99, 100-1; bets, 100, 133; shark fishing, 104; shoots pigeons, 105, 106; unwell, 74, 108, 109, 110, 111; fears brain fever, 112; better, 113; would have visited sentries but feared cold, 116; refuses responsibility for Markham, 117; no good will to Best, 118; releases Markham, 120; mentioned, 119, 123; dislocates elbow, 128; better, 129, 131; affected by food and ale, 132; better, 133, 134; restores Wilson's grog, 133; investigates charge against Briscoe, 135

Bridge, Mrs, wife of Lieutenant, Best meets, 74; described, 75; is seasick, 76, 78; weeps over letter, 79; ill, 80, 82, 85; better, 86, 88; behaves well in danger, 122

Brien, settler at Tauranga, trouble with Maoris, 387

Brilliant, brings emigrants for Manukau area, 327; and death of Symonds, 330

Britannia, 224; described, 226; Best visits, 226, 228, 242

Britomart, HMS, keeps watch on French frigate, 236; brings magistrate to Port Nicholson, 240; drifts in gale, 240; damaged, 241; leaves with Smart and Shortland, 242

Briton, Best on, for Calcutta, 69; wrecked, 69-70

Brougham, takes Wakefield to Bay of Islands, 232; returns to Port Nicholson, 236; lent to investigate deaths at Cloudy Bay, 249-57; very clean ship, 250; drags anchor, 272; arrives from Taranaki, 276, 277

Brown, R., entices labourers to Van Diemen's Land, 52; arrives, 242; dines with Best, 259, 261

Brown, Rev. A. N., missionary at Tauranga, 64; Best meets at Taupo, 312-13; receives Shortland's party, 367; indifferent to ancient Maori customs, 368-9; receives State visitors, 387, 435; says Tupaea going to Motiti for red ochre, 390; Best scorns this, 390, 391; Maoris deprive of potatoes, 395; disapproved of peace-making, of soldiers, and of Best, 67; his native servant seduced by Best, 68, 435; his account of Barrier Island fight, 421, 432

Buddle, T., missionary at Kopua, Waipa, 351; Hobson's party visit, 353-4; tells of great cave, 353; Merrett's girl with, 415

Buffalo, store ship, takes Best and company to New Zealand, 215; at Okiato, 217

Bull, Tommy, killed by Maketu, 329, 333

Bunbury, Thomas, Major, 80th Regiment, arrives in New South Wales, 153; kind to Best, 158; shooting with Best, 159-60, 167; lays charges of assault, 165; on Best's promotion, 168; with Best, 167, 170, 172, 199; arrives at Norfolk Island, 194; commandant at Norfolk Island, 31-3, 211, 215, 403-5; and the mutiny, 32-3, 213; sketching, 195; dislikes Wood of Buffalo, 216; with Pomare, 220; sends troops at Kororareka affair, 406; gets Treaty signed, 37, 220, 227, 392; visits Port Nicholson, 227; 'building mad', 279; Best asks for more leave, 290; Best reports to on return from Taupo, 320; to Tauranga, 386, 387; impatient for action, 387; selects camp site, 389; conflict with W. Shortland, 389; reconciliation, 390; Tai Pari reproves about present, 391-2; returns to Auckland, 393; wrecked in Briton en route to India, 69-70; at Ferozeshah, 70

Bunting, Jabes, Christian Maori chief, 338; his admirable pa, 339

Burnham Water (Miramar), 230n; legend of, 262

Bushell's House, at Manukau, Governor at, 360

Caesar, Best's bloodhound, chases sheep, 243

Campbell, Lieutenant, late 50th Regiment, stays with Best, 177-8; gives shakedown, 179

Cannibalism, Governor instructed to put down, 61, 434; Moturoa admits, 234; tale of at Wanganui, 322; outbreak of at Katikati, 61, 363; at Maketu, 65, 381; practice defended, 383, 384; Ngati Whakaue to give up, 395, 399

Cape hen (giant petrel), first seen, 108; Best kills, 111, 112, 123; is told it is molymauk, 113, 124; described as molymauk, 126

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Cape pigeon, first seen, 104; Bridge shoots first one, 105; Best follows, 106; campaign against, 106-7, 108; immense number of, 107; caught with hook, 117, 118; well described, 117; rated good eating, 118; many seen in Bass Strait, 137

Captain of James Pattison, see Crommarty

Cascade Bay, Norfolk Island, brig at, 183; Best rides to, 186; picnic at, 188; cutting track to, 191--2; brig back and forth, 193-4; new road over Mount Pitt to, 196, 198; prisoners landed at, 209

Catholic, priests at Norfolk Island, 191, 194; bishop at Port Nicholson, 271; burial ground consecrated, 272; chapel at Onewhero, 341; merits disputed, 345; priest at Otumoetai, 372; miserable-looking priest met, 382; two priests from Whakatane, 398

Cats, killed at Norfolk Island, 184, 187, 188, 189; great pets at Taupiri, 345; W. Martin molested, 346, 426

Chaffers, Captain E. M., Port Nicholson harbourmaster, 224; on Port Underwood trip, 255, 256

Chapman, T., missionary of Rotorua, at Taupo, 313; poor opinion of Yate's book, 325n; on tapu breaking and Tuhua killing, 64, 381; asked to Maketu, 393

Chatham Islands, migration of Ngati Mutunga to, 49

Chelydra, ship, takes Port Nicholson labourers and Best to Auckland, 52-3, 277-8; to Bay of Islands, 281

Chess, Bridge does not play, 75; Best beaten at, 79; plays nearly all day, 325

Churton, Rev. J. F., Best dines with, 235; lends books, 242, 247; service in barracks, 324; baptises murderer Maketu, 334

Clarke, Adam (also Arama Karaka), on British justice, Maketu, and land disputes, 340-1

Clarke, G., chief protector of aborigines, visits Thames and Waikato, 56; tribe meet outside his house, 332-3; on Taraia inquiry, 61-2, 361, 364-5; talking at Orere, 361; as pilot, 362; talks to Taraia, 364; at Tauranga, 369, 370, 373; protests against use of troops, 388; comes to Tauranga, 66, 393; pacifying succeeds, 66, 394-5; his view of this quarrel, 66-7; investigation of Whangarei robberies, 423

Clarke, George, junior, to Maketu, 65, 381, 382n; does not arrest Joy, 387 Clendon, J. R., sells Okiato to Hobson, 219n; praised by Pomare, 220; witnesses Pomare's signature on Treaty, 409; in Land Claims Bill dispute, 419-20

Cloudy Bay, reported murders at, 248

Coates, ---, Hobson's private secretary, marriage of, 320

Cobcroft, farmer, obliging about hunting, 157-8; gives platypus, 164; wild fowl chase, 171-2

Cole, Henry, constable of Port Nicholson Council, 39; and of the Queen, 224, 409-10

Colvil, Cape, see Colville, Cape

Colville, Cape, song about, 367; view of, 372; off, 374

Comerford, notorious murderer, 162, 201-2

Convict ships, conditions on, 15-18; officers of, 15-16; types of ship, 16; length of voyages, 16; numbers carried, 16-17; food, 17; punishment on, 18

Convicts on James Pattison, number, 75; embarking, 75, 77; insolence of prisoner, 76, 81; antics of two Negroes, 77; get a fiddle, 78; night disturbance, 77, 79, 109-10, 121; stealing by, 81; Best talks with Negro from Barbados, 90; floggings for stealing, 95, 106; fiddler ironed for stealing, 103; old seaman cleans shark's head, 106; boy flogged, 108; boy eats gallon of porridge twice, 108; risk taken with guard of, 116, 117; pork short, 116; too stormy for flogging, 121; liquor inquiry, 121; rumour of mutinous spirit, 121-2; terrified by ship's danger, 123; Best rewards small services with tobacco, 124; smell of fire in prison, 129; stories of two prisoners, 124, 134; pleased to reach land, 138; great alarm when prison flooded, 141-2

Convicts, type of people, 19-20; on ship, 16-8; in New South Wales, 19-24, 162-3, 201-2; rations, 21; assignment, 21-2, 163; drunkenness, 25-6, 162-3; punishment, 21; women convicts, 22, 161, 162-3; homosexuality, 20, 24, 35; ticket-of-leave men, 23, 163; chained gangs, 23-4, 149, 150; at Norfolk Island, 28-35 (see also Norfolk Island)

Cook, Captain J., named Pigeon House hill, 142; observatory at Ship Cove, 255 Cooper, G., colonial treasurer, 320n; Best visits, 324; Best rows in his gig, 332

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Cormack, W. E., abortive duel with Best, 58, 336n, 423-4, 425

Cornwall, after mutiny exchanges fresh troops for 80th Regiment, 33-4, 213

Coromandel, at Port Nicholson, 240

Coromandel Harbour, see Waiau

Cowell, J., at Kawhia, formerly of Elizabeth, 289n

Cow pastures, New South Wales, 149

Cox, Mr, and family, at Hobartville near Windsor, 153-4; at picnic, 177-8; 179

Crawford, J. C., buys land at Port Nicholson, 43; at Barrett's dinner, 248

Cresswell Bay, Norfolk Island, turtle in, 201; Best walks to, 206, 209

Cricket, Best gets up match at Windsor, 160; at Norfolk Island, busy with preparations, 189; match, 189-90; played, 192, 202, 205; 'capital game', 207, 210; at Port Nicholson, 275; at Auckland, 376, 378

Crocodile Rock, 140

Crommarty, Captain of James Pattison, described, 75, 82; talks, 83, 89-90; eats voraciously, 86; bores with old logs, 111; puts Best off shot, 115; tells of Bridge's ill will, 118; disgraceful conduct, 120; finds tiller ropes jammed, 122; will not stop for Best's albatross, 124; ascertains position of Crocodile Rock, 140; visits Best at Windsor, 150; Best beats him at billiards, 156

Cuba, brings New Zealand Company surveyors, 38; takes Dieffenbach to Sydney, 55; takes Port Nicholson deputation, 237-8; at Kawhia, 290n

Daniell, Captain E., 225n; dispute with Maoris, 51, 238-9; Best dines with, 245; whaling at Paremata, 246n

Daniell, Mrs, approves Best's whare, 259; Best walks with, 260

Davis, R., native teacher at Port Nicholson, 227, 254, 272

Deans, W., to Tararua Range, 236n; to the Wairarapa, 270n

Dieffenbach, Dr E., naturalist, to New Zealand on Tory, 55; his travels before April 1841, 55-6; relations with New Zealand Company, 55-6; Hobson's enthusiasm for him, 55-6; his writing impersonal, 56-7; expedition to Tararua Range, 236; meets Best and plans Waikato trip, 281; they start, 282; separate at Awhitu, 284; meet at Waikato, 285; geologising, 285, 286-7; digs ditch, 292; mentioned, 297, 299n, 302; visits springs, 290, 305, 306, 307; Best leaves him at Taupo, 312; returns to Auckland, 321; leaves for England, 57, 326; kakapo feathers at Taupo, 321; named in tangi, 350

Dignum, escaped convict, 201-2; captured, 203

Dowling, see Downing, H.

Downing, H., hospitable to Best, 319; and to Shortland's party, 365-6

Duchess of Argyll, emigrant ship, to Auckland, 376-7

Duels, 58; Best's with Cormack, 336, 423-4, 425; challenges arising from Land Claims Bill, 420-1

Duke of Roxborough, emigrant ship, to Port Nicholson, 38, 46

Dumoulin, Grace, pretty little girl, 154; Best teases, 155; at picnic, 177

Duncans Bay, see Duncombes Bay

Duncombes Bay, Norfolk Island, 186; cliff-climbing, 193

'Dun Cow' (see 'Red Cow' and Mrs Walker)

Dunlop, Captain of Favorite, HMS, 257; invites ladies aboard, 258

Durham, proposed name for Port Nicholson, 272

Duvauchelle, J. S., with Best on Mount Eden, 279; to Manukau, 280-1

Earp, G. B., opposes Land Claims Bill, 332, 419; 'blackguard letters' and duels, 332, 419-20

Earthquake, at Port Nicholson, 244

Eden, Mount, see Maungawhau

Edwards, trader, dispute with Pungarehu, 298, 352

Eels, on Wairarapa trip, 265, 266, 269; cooking and eating of, 349

Egmont, Mount, climbed by Dieffenbach, 55; legend about, 309; seen, 359

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Eleanor, at Port Nicholson, 241, 242, 258

Ellison, T., widow of, near Porirua, 255

Ellson, Mrs, 189

Ellson, R., Assistant-Surgeon, 50th Regiment, attends Best, 183, 198, 203-4; to Phillip Island, 190; 196

Elson, see Ellson

Emily Bay, Norfolk Island, plover at, 188; salmon in, 192

Ensmore, carries 80th Regiment to India, 69

Epouni, see Te Puni

Erebus, HMS, visit to Bay of Islands, 335

Erskine, Mrs, a friend of Smyth, 156; beautiful and dances with Best, 176

Essington, to Port Nicholson, 52, 242; to Akaroa and back, 242, 259

Evans Bay, 229; lagoon near, 230n; huge haul of fish, 261

Evans, Dr G. S., lawyer and on council of Port Nicholson, 38; meets Shortland, etc., 42, 224; Revans on, 224n; Best's view of, 224-5; on deputation re Gipps's Land Bill, 49, 237-8

Fairburn, W. T., at Maraetai, near Auckland, 361

Farrow, J., boat stolen by Maketu Maoris, 64, 380-1; with Best to Maketu, 381-4; Maketu return boat, 393, 395; has kiwi, 395

Favorite, HMS, at Port Nicholson, 257-9; ladies aboard, 258; some officers go to Waikato Heads, 284; at Auckland, 282, 323, 329; to Bay of Islands, 324; sent to reassure Kororareka, 329

Fiji chiefs, at ball, 176

Fitzgerald, Dr J. P., lives on Hutt River, 229; at Thorndon, 254n; double trip from Bay of Islands to Port Nicholson, 261; with Best, 261; hears guns at night, 273

Fitzgerald, R. A., challenged by S. M. D. Martin, 420-1, 425

Forsaith, J. S., plundered by Maoris at Kaipara, 336, 422

Forster, superintendent of convicts, Norfolk Island, 29, 201; reports sharks, 207

Forsyth, see Forsaith

Foster, Captain, to Auckland headquarters, 325

Frank, old Negro sailor, 293, 347

Franklin, Lady Jane, Hobson on Dieffenbach to, 56; her account of Hobson, 60; Hobson's account of her, 282n

Franklin, Sir John, refuses to entice labourers from Port Nicholson, 52

Freeman, ----- , W. Shortland's private secretary, 387

Furlong, Captain, 144

Gamack, Colonial Surgeon, and Mrs Gamack, give party at Windsor, 153

Gammie, Dr P., Assistant-Surgeon, 80th Regiment, 153; with Best, 168, 169, 170; attends canting lady, 171; hunts wallaby, 171; grumbling, 279; attends Best's leg, 320; owner of horse Haidee, 331, 416; returns to Auckland from Tauranga, 393; 424

'Gigas', distressed in tangi, 344; devours eels, 349

Gipps, Sir George, Governor New South Wales, and Maconochie, 34, 35; at St. Patricks ball, 166-7; excellent levee, 16, 175-6; his New Zealand Land Bill, 44, 47, 48-9, 53, 232-3; 235, 417; Port Nicholson deputation to, 49, 53, 237-8; refuses to employ Dieffenbach, 56

'Goashore', iron pot, 302n

Godfrey, Colonel E. L., land claims commissioner, 59, 418; Best likes, 325, 335; to Bay of Islands, 325, 374

Gorrie, J., robbed at Kaipara, 422

Governor Phillip, brig, 178; with Best to Norfolk Island, 180; to Cascade Bay, 183; to Sydney, 185; brings Best no mail, 193-4; 195; report of, 205; at Norfolk Island, 209-10

Great Barrier Island (Aotea), Best and Shortlands to, 63, 378-9; visit copper mine, 378-9; Ngapuhi defeated there, 332, 379, 421, 431-2; Best calls at, 386

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Guard, John, advises Colonel Wakefield, 37; station at Kakapo Bay, 250, 251, 252, 412

Gulston, Captain, in mutiny, 33; arrives at Norfolk Island, 194; 199; 200; 202

Gunnai, see Te Kanae

Gunton, Captain, remains in charge, 187; to Phillip Island, 190; Mount Pitt picnic, 191; relieved, 194; departure regretted, 14, 195

Gunton, Mrs, 189; departure regretted, 14, 195

Hadfield, O., missionary at Waikanae, 254

Hakaria, of Ngati Whakaue, goes to Maketu, 389

Hamiora, chief of Puke Whanake pa, 394

Hamlin, J., missionary at Manukau, 328n, numerous family, 338

Hamlin, Mrs, Symonds tries to help, 328n

Hamlyn, see Hamlin

Hannah, reports Banks Peninsula barren and snowy, 237

Hanson, R. D., acting agent for New Zealand Company, 47; on survey and selection at Port Nicholson, 47-8; plan to remove to Chile, 49; visits Gipps about land titles, 49, 237-8; pays Dieffenbach, 55; secretary to Lord Durham, 225n

Hargreaves, Miss, married to ----- Young, 321

Hargreaves, ----, borrows and injures Best's horse, 378, 431

'Hau nui', as Te Wherowhero's deputy, 352

Hau Whitu, see Awhitu

Hayes, Quartermaster, 80th Regiment, 153; with Best, 154, 155, 158, 160; frightened by snakes, 164; shoots with Best, 167, 171-2, 174

Hayne, Captain of Alice, Best approves, 196; 198; 199; Anderson complains of trading activities, 199; leaves, 199

Henry Wellesley, slow convict ship, 16

Herald, HMS, takes Bunbury with Treaty round New Zealand, 37, 220; at Port Nicholson, 227

Hill, Ensign, 50th Regiment, shooting, 186; to Phillip Island, 187; cliff-climbing, 192; walks, 193

Hinde, mail and stores to Norfolk Island, 194

Hobson, Captain William, Lieut-Governor of New Zealand, to Bay of Islands, 36; Treaty of Waitangi, 37, 41, 219-21; ill, 37, 38, 219; moves from Paihia to Okiato, 220-1, 408-9; reaction to constitution of Port Nicholson, 40-3, 223; writes to Colonel Wakefield, 42; loyal address to, 43, 232; his house, 43; approval by Colonial Office, 44; founds Auckland, 45; hated by New Zealand Company, 45, 52-3, 60, 271, 277-8, 325; his difficulties, 60; described by Lady Franklin, 60; takes labourers from Port Nicholson, 52-3, 277-8; goes to Auckland, 281; enthusiasm of for Dieffenbach, 56; helps Dieffenbach and Best start journey, 282; receives Best with usual kindness, 320; to Port Nicholson and Akaroa, 321; returns, 326; Best dines with, 327; sends Favorite to Kororareka, 329; Titipa offers land to, 334; visit to Kawhia and Otawhao proposed, 334; this journey, 337-360; Hobson in capital spirits, 338; mentioned, 340, 341, 344, 346, 348; pleased with Otawhao country and welcome, 349; climbs Kakepuku, 350; settles dispute, 352; difficulties with horses, 356; buys Te Wherowhero out of Taranaki, 357; hurrying home, 358; hurried and cross, 359, 360; has miserable night, 359; returns Maketu's bones, 374; death, 374-5; his land claims ordinance, 332, 417-9; irritated by bearing of Whangarei deputation, 422

Hobson Harbour, in Great Barrier Island, 379

Hobson, Mrs, and family on the Buffalo, 216; joins Hobson, 219; on party, 320n Home, Everard, Sir, of HMS North Star, reports on Nelson after Wairau, 68-9

Hongi, Ngapuhi chief, attacked Waikato and Rotorua, 280n, 311n; captured Totara pa, 363; related to murderer, Maketu, 329; (see also Ngapuhi)

Hopper, E. B., colonist, drowned, 243

Hopu Keore, small hill near Mount Maunganui, 389; military camp there, 389, 390-1

Horotieu, see Horotiu

Horotiu (Horotieu), Waikato place name, 345

Hutt River, Britannia at, 226; 228-9; explored, 236; 243n

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Industry, takes Bunbury, etc., to Auckland from Tauranga, 393

Integrity (see also Pearson, Captain), to Bay of Islands, 40; carries Best's party to Port Nicholson, 42, 223-4

James Pattison, convict ship, 13, 15; tonnage, 16; length of voyage with Best, 13, 16; carries free emigrants, 26; guard embarked at Deptford, 73; convicts embarked, 75, 77; contents of ship, 75; to Sheerness, 76; topsail yard breaks, 76; pass Reculver, Ramsgate, and reach little Downs, 81; in the Downs, 82; Dungeness, 82-3; Bay of Biscay, 84, 85; pass Madeira, 87-8; hours of meals, 95; crossing Line, 96-7; music at dinner, 103; nearly collide at night, 108; meals monotonous, 111; cold wet weather, 112-3, 115; extraordinary run of 253 miles, 118; no boat ready when man overboard, 114; masts lost in squall, 119; disgraceful rage of captain, 120; ship's cook tells of mutinous spirit in convicts, 121-2; steering fouled and ship in danger, 122-3; no stove or fire in cuddy, 126; lifebuoy or hen coop might have saved drowned sailor, 128; carpenter makes safety buoy, 129; binnacle compass errs, 130; rectified, 131; baggage injured in hold, 131; ship abused by doctor, 132; day's run often 240 miles, 132; ready for Sydney, 134; leak, 142

Jane Gifford, emigrant ship, to Auckland, 376

Jeffries, -----, master of Tortoise, sent for, 386

Jewess, lost near Banks Peninsula, 326

Johnson, Dr J., dates Kororareka affair, 217; account of it, 405-7; on Te Wherowhero's Whare, 280n

Joy, Charles, breaks tapu and is pillaged at Katikati, 63, 380; sent to Tauranga with Best, 386; walks off at Great Barrier Island, 386

Julia, from Bay of Islands with soldiers, 376

Kahawai, fishing, at Bay of Islands, 222; at Firth of Thames, 362; Best loses his hooks, 365

Kaikoura Ranges, 229

Kai na Hura, old Waikato chief, 340

Kaipara, Sophia Pate wrecked at, 324; ship mistakes Manukau for, 336; Aurora wrecked at, 408; chiefs sign Treaty, 408-9; Buller missionary at, 409, 422; disturbance at, 336, 422

Kaitotehe (Kai Totehe) mission at, 342n, Hobson's party at, 343

Kaituna River (Kai Tuna), its mouth, 382, 384-5

Kaiwharawhara, valley of, 229; bridge over, 232

Kaka, bird, method of trapping, 253; tame, 253; eaten, 266; given, 302

Kakapo Bay, Guard's whaling station, 250, 251, 252, 412

Kakapo, bird, accounts of, 291, 327, 395

Kakepuku hill, Hobson's party climbs, 350-1; legend of, 351; round base of, 353; lizards found on, 354

Kake Puku, see Kakepuku

Kangaroo hunt, 151-2

Kapiti Island, Best visits, 254

Karangahape, on Manukau Harbour, 54, 283n, 360

Karapiti blowhole, 314

Karioi, mountain, Best and Dieffenbach attempt, 287

Karreowe, see Karioi

Kate, to Port Nicholson from Sydney, 236; leaves for Bay of Islands, 272; leaves Auckland for Coromandel Harbour, 325; Dieffenbach left on, 326

Kati, brother of Te Wherowhero and also called Tukewaru or Pakeke, 337; embarrassed at tangi, 343-4; recalls fighting, 347; speaks in land dispute, 348; paid for Taranaki land, 357; 427

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Katikati, pa attacked by Taraia, 61, 63, 361, 363, 364, 380; tapu broken at, 64, 380; Farrow driven into, 380; relatives at Tuhua, 381; Tupaea and Te Mutu to, 391; wood from, 392; E. Shortland to, 397, 398

Katikati, part of Tauranga Harbour, 368, 371

Katipo, spider, described, 286; bite of, 327

Kauaeranga, mission, 316, 317; Best at, 318; fine pa, 319; Shortland's party to, 362

Kauaronga, see Kauaeranga

Kawai, see Kahawai

Kawakawa River, Best explores, 221

Kawhia, Best visits, 288-90; geology of, 290; settlement, 288, 358; land good, 291; chief from visits Best, 328; Hobson's party at mission, 358; as harbour, 290, 358; pigs swim, 358-9

Kawia, see Kawhia

Kawiti, chief at Bay of Islands, 220; signs Treaty with protests, 221-2; leads outbreak, 324-5; J. Merrett wrote of and painted, 414

Kelson, Lieutenant Charles H. M., wounds man slightly, 157; with Best, 159, 160; letter from, 173

Kempt, Major, 80th Regiment, 153

Kettlewell, Captain of Brougham, exchanges canoe for pig, 256

Kiapara, see Kaipara

Kihi, prisoner in Kororareka affair, 406-8

Ki Kora, Maori involved in Cloudy Bay murder inquiry, 251-2

Kirripori, see Wharepouri

Kissling, G. A., and wife, at Tauranga, 381

Kivi-Kivi bird, see Kiwi

Ki-warra-warra, see Kaiwharawhara

Kiwi, bird, described, 222; referred to, 291; sickly one at Otumoetai, 395

Kiwi, chief at Kawhia, 358; pretty daughters, 359

Knight, second mate of James Pattison, Best ashore with, 80; talks with, 89; harpoons sharks, 104-5; quarrel with Cutter, 105; alarmed at leak, 142

Knowles, -----, clerk, at Norfolk Island, rides, 185; to Phillip Island, 187, 190

Ko Kawa, hill, legend of, 351

Ko Matu Tere, see Motutere

Kopua, at Thames, proposed settlement, 363

Kopua, Wesleyan mission at Waipa, 351n; Governor visits, 353

Kororareka affair, 217-9, 405-8; instigated by Kawiti, 220

Kororareka, described, 216-7; affair of, 217-9, 405-8; Europeans panic after Robertson murders, 329

Kororarireka, see Kororareka

Koti Koti, place name on Awaroa River, 284

Koua Ronga, see Kauaeranga

Kouetti, see Kawiti

Kowa Kowa River, see Kawakawa

Kowetti, see Kawiti

Kukutai, old Waikato chief, 340

Kumutoto pa, at Port Nicholson, 50; payment for its land, 50, 52

Lady Leith, from Port Nicholson for Sydney, 242

Lady Raffles, to Auckland from East Cape, 326

Land Claims Bills, Sir George Gipps, 44, 47, 48-9, 53, 232-3, 235, 417; Hobson's, 60, 332, 417-9

Land sales, high at Auckland, 321; Best buys sections, 324, 334; January 1842 sale, 331

Langlois, Captain of whaler Comte de Paris colonising at Banks Peninsula, 236; not gentlemanly, 241; French at Akaroa, 410-1

Lapwing, lost near East Cape, 326

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Lardner, G. D., commissariat officer, 216; 'in full tog', 218; to Auckland from Tauranga, 393

L'Aube, French corvette, protecting Kororareka, 329

Lavaux, Captain of L'Aube, gentlemanly, 241; protects Kororareka, 329; diplomatic position, 236, 241, 411

Leathart (Lethorp and Liethardt), 288n, 289n; Best visits at Kawhia, 288-90, 291n; travels to Waipa, 291, 292

Leeuwin, Cape, James Pattison passes meridian of, 132

Lethorp, see Leathart

Liethardt, see Leathart

Ligar, C. W., appointed surveyor-general, 320n; arrives, 330

Lightbody, Lieutenant, 80th Regiment, 153

Little Barrier Island, small boat harbour, 386

Liverpool, New South Wales, population and stockade, 149; mentioned, 152

Lloyds, takes 80th Regiment to India, 69

Lockhart, R. A., Captain, 80th Regiment, meets Best, 146; to New Zealand, 146n, 215; meeting with Pomare, 220; called by Hobson, 223; at military review, 223; Best exchanges duty with, 281; at Tauranga, 394; re Best's duel, 424, 425

London, emigrant ship, at Port Nicholson, 271; fouled by Brougham, 272; prolonged dance on, 275-6

Long Ridge, government farm, Norfolk Island, Best at, 183, 185, 188, 189, 192, 193, 196, 204, 209, 210

Lookers On, see Kaikoura Ranges

Lord Sidmouth, takes settlers from Port Nicholson to Hobart, 52

Lowrie, Peter, breaks tapu and is pillaged at Katikati, 63-4, 380

Lowry Bay, 229n

Lugard, Lieutenant R. E., introduced to Best, 178, 180; laughs at the McDonalds, 180-1; to Phillip Island, 187, 190, 201; with Best, 182, 183, 185, 189, 191, 193, 195, 198, 203, 205, 207, 210; incites party to rowdiness, 196; builds summer-house, 210; sails for Sydney, 336; captures fugitive convicts, 404

Lyall Bay, 229

Lyells Bay, see Lyall Bay

McCarthy, Best's servant, 228, 247

McDonald, Lieutenant, 80th Regiment, embarks Norfolk Island detachment, 179; provides amusement, 180-1; at Government House, 182; remains in charge, 187

McDonald, Mrs, wife of Lieutenant, provides amusement, 180-1; Best walks with, 183; and ladies' ball, 189; at Mount Pitt picnic, 191; Best visits, 200, 202, 209

McDonough, E., at Bay of Islands, 221

McLean, farm superintendent, Norfolk Island, Best with, 188, 189, 192; on picnic, 191; cliff-climbing, 193; his whaling friend turned away, 202; 203; exchanges pigs with Best, 204, 210

Maconochie, Arthur, Captain, at Norfolk Island, 34-5; appalled by convicts, 29, 34; Best's view of, 213-4

Madeira, island, seen from James Pattison, 87-8

Magellanic clouds, described, 119

Maginal clouds, see Magellanic clouds

Magnet, Sydney to Port Nicholson with little news, 248; entered Whaingaroa Harbour, 287

Maketu, murders Tommy Bull and Robertson family, 329; trial and execution, 333-4; fate disturbs Maoris, 62, 329-30, 340, 351, 364; bones returned to relatives, 374; first Maori executed, 408

Maketu (place) in wars, 297, 304n, 317; natives of steal boat and attack Tuhua, 63-5, 381; Best, Shortland, and Clarke to, 65, 381-4; meeting at, 65, 382-4; position of pa, 384-5; two Maketu men at Tauranga meeting escorted home, 389; reported ready for peace, 393; Shortland's mission successful, 394-5; Best to, 399-400

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Manacao, see Manukau

Mana Island, Nias will not visit, 227; Best visits, 255

Manawa Tu, see Manawatu

Manawatu, tracks to, 323; mentioned, 387

Mangakino River, crossed, 303

Manga Kowai, on Waipa, 355

Manga Pore, see Mangapouri

Mangapouri, Te Whero Whero at, 348; Hobson hears land dispute, 348, 354-5

Mangawara River, Waikato tributary, 344

Manga Ware, see Mangawara River

Mangawhio River, crossed 303

'Man overboard', Wilson ducked, 74; sailor boy White drowned, 114; seaman White drowned, 127-8

Mansell, see Maunsell, Rev. R.

Mantell, W. B. D., Best meets off Waikanae, 254n

Manukau, Symonds at, 54-5; Best to, 280-1, 282-3, 326; Brilliant enters harbour, 327; land company at, 54-5, 327n; racecourse on road to, 330; ship mistakes it for Kaipara, 336

Maoris, Best's first mention, 215; impressed by Pomare and by Te Waru, 220, 298-9; welcome, 225, 349; house construction, 226; argument, 227-8; attitude to British law, 228, 275, 287, 296, 298-9, 393, 399; feasting, 231, 235, 265-6, 285, 355; firemaking, 246; women as porters, 246, 290; bird trap, 253; hospitality, 263, 265-6, 293, 344, 350; oven, 265; cruelty in hunting, 265; declining numbers, 280; suicide common, 285; extortion, 55-6, 283, 294-5; superstitious about fires, 291-2; about graves, 299; games, 300, 342, 426; excessive Christianity, 305-7; singing, 308, 333; heads sacred, 310; excessive giving, 312; thieving, 312; disturbed by fate of Maketu, 329-30, 340-1, 351, 364; honesty, 355; improved living, 339, 361; origins of, 368-9, 376; priests, 370-1, 372, 373; sacred pipes, 392

Maraetai, at Waikato Heads, Maunsell's station, 284-5, 360; (see also Maunsell)

Maraetai, near Auckland, Fairburn's place, 361

Maramarua River, tributary of Waikato, 342

Marama Rua, see Maramarua

Martha Ridgway, emigrant ship with smallpox, 258; immigrants landing, 259

Martin, W., appointed chief justice, 320n; arrives, 325; with Hobson to interior, 59, 337-48; 341; reassures Maoris about British law, 340-1; disturbed by cat at Whatawhata , 346, 426; song made about, 347, 427; back to Auckland, 348; at Tauranga on journey with Selwyn, 65, 387; opposes using force, 65

Martin, S. M. D., editor, New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, 419; challenges to duel, 420; as second to Cormack, 423-4; complains about officers, 425

Mary Taylor, to Port Nicholson from Sydney, 276

Mason, W., son drowned, 324

Matakana, people attack tapu breakers, 64

Mataketake, see Matakitahi pa

Matakitahi pa, captured by Ngapuhi, 296n, 355

Matamata, Best decides to go by, 313; mentioned, 314; Best reaches, 316; people tired of war with Maketu, 317; Dieffenback and Symonds at, 321; attitude to Taraia affair, 362-3

Matata, bird, custom with, 335-6

Mate, first, of James Pattison, see Tautitt

Mate, second, of James Pattison, see Knight

Mate, third, of James Pattison involved in prisoners' getting rum, 121; ill most of voyage, 131

Mathew, Felton, surveyor-general, plans town of Russell, 237; Best dines with, 281; involved in challenges, 420

Matta Matta, see Matamata

Mauhoro, on Piako River, 317, 318

Maukuro, see Mukuro

Maunganui, Mount, at Tauranga, 367; view from, 372-3; 384, 387; military camp near, 389, 391

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Maungatapu, pa at Tauranga, 372; Best, Shortland, and Meurant visit, 391-3; its position, 393; chief Taipari the best at Tauranga, 393; fishing party from, 396-8

Maungatautari mountain, 294; Best's party to, 299-300; passed on left, 315, 347; shooting incident near, 351; view of, 356

Maungawhau (Mount Eden), described, 279-80

Maunsell, Rev. R., Best dines with, 285; visiting Morgan at Otawhao, 294; Best criticises, 295, 296; leaves for Rotorua, 296; Hobson's party at his station, 340, 360; Turner burns bricks for, 348

Mauries, see Maoris

Mayor Island, see Tuhua

Mein-Smith, Captain, W., New Zealand Company's surveyor-general, 46; account of surveying difficulties, 46; mentioned, 225; discovery of flat land, 243, 260; Best dines with, 247; loses Best's Wairarapa map, 270-1

Meredith, L. A., quoted on convicts, 19; on Sydney, 25; on colonial society, 27; quoted in praise of Red Cow Inn, 148n

Merrett, J. J., joins Best at Otawhao, 297; sketches Te Waru, 299; has Don Juan, 300; reaches Taupo with Best, 308; leaving Taupo and Best, 312, 313; arrives Auckland, 324; notes about him, 414-6; petitions Grey, 414-5; his wife, 414, 415-6

Meurant, E., lay worker at Whaingaroa mission, 287; on kakapo, 327; interpreter on Hobson's trip, 337, 427; harassed by Governor, 356, 360; visits Tauranga pas, 387, 391, 392

Moa, alleged to exist still, 291; size guessed from bones at East Cape, 367; reported seen at Cloudy Bay, 368

Moia, see Moa

Mokoro, see Mukuro

Molesworth, F. A., quoted on survey and selection at Port Nicholson, 47; complains of Shortland, 238n; 243n

Molymauk, confused with Cape hen, 113, 124; Best kills, 118; giant petrel well described as molymauk, 126; too cunning, 127; two killed, 131; Best catches and describes a bird now called Mollymauk, 136; more shot, 136; many seen in Bass Strait, 137

Monck, -----, Hobson's servant, on inland journey, 337, 341

Monga Kino, see Mangakino River

Monga Wa, see Maungawhau

Monops, Best's horse, 331; lent and injured, 378; court case on, 431

Moore, at Coromandel Harbour, 365, 366

Moprau, Ngapuhi leader, defeat at Great Barrier Island, 332, 379, 421, 431-2

Morant, see Meurant, E.

Moreing, H., visits Gipps about land titles, 49, 237

Morgan, J., missionary at Otawhao, 294; and escaped prisoners, 294, 295, 297; lectures Te Waru's daughter, 299; kind, 299; mentioned, 307; his horse to Governor, 349; receives Governor, 350-51; tells of shooting incident, 351; writes about J. Merrett, 415-6

Morgan, Mrs, arranges washing, 297; kind, 299

Motete Island, see Motiti Island

Mother Carey's chickens, storm petrels, seen, 85, 88

Motiti Island, tribes quarrel over, 317, 388; Tupaea's expedition to, 390, 391

Moturoa, Mrs Ahinga, in argument, 228; described, 234; tends Best on Wairarapa trip, 262, 263

Moturoa (Muturoea), chief of Pipitea pa, 50; disputes sale of land to New Zealand Company, 50, 234, 239; Spain's judgment on, 51-2; feasts his visitors, 230-1, 235; description of, 233-4; once a cannibal, 234; pays court to magistrate, 243; takes Best to Wairarapa, 261-70; his care for him, 263, 265-6; alarmed at supposed attack, 266-7; gives Christmas present, 271

Motutere pa, Best meets Brown at, 313

Mounganui Mount, see Maunganui Mount

Mounga Tapu, see Maungatapu

Mounga Totare, see Maungatautari

Mukatu, see Maketu

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Mukuro (also Maukuro, Mokoro, and Mokerau), principal chief, 295; greets Governor at Otawhao, 349; his song, 360, 428-9

Murphy, M., magistrate, 236; to Port Nicholson, 241; Best dislikes, 242; courted by Moturoa, 243; Best advises on land, 243; on Cloudy Bay investigations, 248-57; exhausted, 250-1; clears Ki Kora, 252; at Te Awaiti, 255; abused by settlers, 272, 278; inquires into sound of guns, 273; reports Maori stealing, 273; controls disturbance, 322-3n

Muturoea, see Moturoa

Nagle, Captain of Victoria, Best warns to expect attack, 382; Albatross ignores his signals and shots, 385

Nagle's Cove, Barrier Island, Government party visit, 378-9; Best calls at, 386

Naiti Rangi, see Ngaiterangi

Na Kete (probably Ngakete), chief, 280

Natta Houa, see Ngati Haua

Natta-Kahoons, see Ngati Kahungungu

Natta-row-cowas, see Ngati Raukawa

Needham, Ensign, 50th Regiment, Best relieves, 183-4; Best regrets, 185

Nepean Island, 195, 198, 204

Nettle, Best's bulldog bitch, 74; bites child's nose, 77; keeps child off deck, 78; sleeps in Best's room, 78; keeps child's shoes, 79; defeats goat, 82; seasick but fat, 83; has castor oil, 85, 133; is general favourite, 85; mentioned, 90; collar stolen by convicts, 94; very fat and cowardly, 111; warm in kennel, 112; noisy approach saves sentries, 126; dosed with sulphur, 133; lent to officer, 155; at Norfolk Island, 183; on cat hunt, 184; not on Favorite, 257; arrives at Port Nicholson, 258; attacks pigs, 272; death of, 323

New South Wales, convicts in, 20-6, 162-3, 201-2; free emigrants, 26-7; social structure, 27; wool, 26, 150, 156; Paramatta to Windsor, 145-6; Windsor to Berrima, 148-50; animals, birds, etc., 147-8, 158, 161-2, 165; horses, 148, 176-7; currency men, 164, 168

New Zealand Banking Company, at Auckland, 321

New Zealand Company, outline, 36, 37-53, 417-9; buying of land at Port Nicholson disputed, 50, 60, 63, 234, 239; Spain's judgment on it, 50-1; try for Wanganui land, 53, 326; hungry for Wairarapa, 271; hostile to Hobson, 45, 52-3, 60, 271, 277-8, 325; (see also Land Claims Bills)

New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, established, 321

Ngaiterangi (Nai ti Rangi), of Tauranga, attacked by Taraia at Katikati, 361; quarrels with Ngati Whakaue, 382, 383, 388

Nga Moni, brother of Tohi, 383, 400; influential young Ngati Whakaue chief, 388; speaks at Tauranga meeting, 388-9; wants to go to India with Best, 399-400

Nga Nga Whio, see Mangawhio River

Ngapuhi tribe, war of 1821-2, 280n, 311n; sack Matahitahi pa, 269n, 355; fighting on Waikato recalled, 347; feeling high over Maketu's fate, 329-330; in Taraia's war party, 61, 363; at Barrier Island, 332, 379, 421, 431-2

Nga Pui, see Ngapuhi Ngaruawahia, Hobson's party to, 345 Nga te Whatua, see Ngati Whatua

Ngati Awa, driven from North Taranaki by Waikato tribes, 49, 353, 357n; some chiefs sell land at Port Nicholson, 37, 49-51, 234; at Waikanae, 235n; relations with Ngati Raukawa, 49, 235, 254n; relations with Ngati Kahungungu, 49, 235, 265; oppose Taupo, 310, 412

Ngati Haua, war against Rotorua, 304n, 317; murders among, 316; war against Ngati Paoa, 332

Nga ti Howa, see Ngati Haua

Ngati Ira, killed and expelled by Ngati Awa, 49

Ngati Kahungungu, war with Ngati Awa, 49, 235, 265n; Te Wharepouri visits, 230; women reputed handsome, 231; feared by Pipitea natives, 263, 266-7, 269; fighting with Taupo tribes, 306

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Ngati Maniapoto, tribe forced Ngati Awa to migrate, 49

Ngati Maru, Totara pa taken, 363

Ngati Mutunga, subtribe of Ngati Awa, to Chatham Island, 49

Ngati Paoa, tribal area, 332; peace-making with Ngati Whatua, 333; story behind it, 421-2

Nga ti Pawas, see Ngati Paoa

Ngati Pou (Nga ti Pou) Waikato subtribe, propose insult, 338, 342, 348

Ngati Raukawa, of Otaki, relations with Ngati Awa and Ngati Toa, 49, 235, 254n, 412; kinsmen at Tutukamoana pa, 306

Ngati te Rangi, see Ngaiterangi

Ngati Toa, migration south, 49

Ngati Whatua, at Auckland isthmus, 280n; disturbed at Maketu's arrest, 329-30; war and peace with Ngati Paoa, 332-3, 421

Ngati Whakaue (Ngati Waukaue), quarrels with Ngaiterangi, 383, 388; admit having wronged, 394-5; will give up cannibalism, 395, 399

Ngauranga, Te Wharepouri's village, 229

Ngauruhoe, Mount, climbed by Bidwell, 254n, 310

Nias, Captain of HMS Herald, 221, 227

Norfolk Island, penal station, 28-35; prison buildings, 28, 194-5n; food, 29; under Major Anderson, 29-31; Bunbury, 31-3, 211-3, 215, 403-5; Maconochie, 34-5, 213-5; Childs, 35; 'Irish Town', 32-4; troops mutiny, 32-3, 213, 259; Best at, 27, 182-214; its beauty and fruitfulness, 182, 186, 187; thick bush, 191; need for exercise at, 184; duties, 185; Best's quarters, 185; to Phillip Island, 186-7; balls, 187-8, 189; picnics, 186, 188, 191, 199; Norfolk Island disliked, 191, 206; mail, 194

North, Lieutenant, 80th Regiment, at Berrima, 150-1; gives beetles and whale teeth, 155; lends boat, 157; lends horse, 160; Best fails to purchase lieutenancy from, 206

North Star, HMS, brings troops after Wairau massacre, 68-9

Nunn, Brevet Major, Best meets, 144; Best with, 165, 167, 180

O'Brien, -----, trader at Matamata, 316

Ocean Bay, at Port Underwood, 248n, 249n, 250

O'Connell, General Sir Maurice, Selwyn to about Best, 68, 435-6; pardons soldier, 213; complaint to about Best and Lockhart, 425

Oharieu, see Ohariu

Ohariu, 232n, 243n, 273n; disturbance with natives of, 273-5

Okahu, peace-making ceremony at, 332, 421

Okiato, Bay of Islands (old Russell), Buffalo disembarks, 217; government establishment at, 219, 419; grog shop on beach, 219; town planned at, 237

Okivie, see Okiwi-iti

Okiwi-iti, 270

Onehunga, Best camps at, 282; leaves, 283; returns to, 360

Onewhero, on Waikato River, 341-2

Oparau River, Best meets Te Waru at, 291

Opossum shooting, 147-8, 151

Opotiki, quarrel with Whakatane, 399

Orakau, settlement in rich country, 353

Orange Vale, Norfolk Island, beautiful government gardens, 186, 188

Oraruhe, frontier pa, 303

Orere, site of pa, 361

Oriental, emigrant ship to Port Nicholson, 38, 46

Orongorongo River, Best's party land at, 262-3; usual New Zealand valley, 263; return to, 269

Orong Orong, see Orongorongo River

Otaki, Taupo men visit, 304, 306, 310, 412

Otawhao, 291; Best at, 294-9; Hobson's party at, 349-353; welcomed, 349-50; moving tangi, 349-50

Otawilla Bay, see Robin Hood Bay

Otawiru (or Robin Hood Bay), 250, 413

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Otawou, see Otawhao

Otu Matai, see Otumoetai

Otumoetai, chief pa at Tauranga, 368; described, 371-2; Best visits, 371-2, 395; its chief Tupaea, 391, 395; kiwi there, 395

Otway, Cape, passed by James Pattison, 137; coast described, 138

Oudu-Eka (Umika), near Raglan, 286n; pretty girls of, 386, 307, 359

Paeakura, see Pehiakura

Pai Tuhi, killed by Taraia, 363; relations, 363, 370; wife seen, 372

Paki (also Pake), chief of Kaitotehe pa, Taupiri, 344; in land dispute, 348 Palliser Cape, 268

Pampeluna Bridge, Norfolk Island, 191

Paramatta, New South Wales, Best at, 144-5, 148, 152, 167

Paramatta, New Zealand, see Paremata

Pararua, see Porirua

Paremata (Paramatta), whaling station, 246

Parkes, -----, maid injured by Maoris, 243

Paroa Bay, New Zealand, 221

Parties at Norfolk Island, 183; bachelors' ball, 187-8; ladies' ball, 189; chairs thrown, 196; lemons and candles thrown, 197

Pearson, Captain of Integrity, and Port Nicholson Council, 40; reports to Hobson, 40, 409; litigation, 226

Pehiakura, fine pa of Jabes Bunting, 339; Hobson's party to, 360

Pelorus, HMS, calls at Norfolk Island, 194, 199

Pepitea, see Pipitea

Perongea, Mount, see Pirongia

Petone, beach track to from Thorndon, 237, 240n; Best walks, 237, 245, 259, 270, 271; trip to with ladies delayed, 273, 274; Maoris disturbed, 275

Petre, W. H., 243n; at Barrett's dinner, 248

Petrels, seen, 111, 119, 136; shot, 106

Petwoni, see Petone

Phillip Island, grandeur of, 182, 204; shooting parties to, 186-7, 190, 194, 201; J. C. Best drowned returning from, 213

Piako River, 316; Best canoes on, 317-8; wild ducks and mud flats, 318; Dieffenbach by, 321; land extending to, 345

Picnics, J. C. Best's, 177-8; at Norfolk Island, 186, 188, 191, 199; at Auckland, 375-6 Pigeon House, hill in New South Wales, 142

Pigs, livestock of James Pattison, sow farrows, 106; a pig killed, 111; young pigs promising, 127; cabin eats one piglet, sow another, 132; at Norfolk Island, 184, 204, 210; dogs catch at Bay of Islands, 222-3; pig-hunting in Ship Cove, 255; and in Wairarapa, 264-5, 267; attack Best's garden, 272; Maoris' method of driving, 301; swimming at Kawhia, 358-9; kill Nettle, 323

Pipitea, pa at Port Nicholson, 50; payment for its land, 50, 52; position, 226n; mentioned, 245, 261, 262; land at Orongorongo, 263, 269

Pirita, pa at Coromandel, 366

Pirongia, track over, 291; Best and Dieffenbach climb, 292; Hobson's party pass, 347; legend of giant lizard on, 353-4

Pitt, Mount, at Norfolk Island, Best climbs, 188; picnic at, 191; cutting track down, 191-2; new road over, 196, 205

Planter, mail by, 325; Dieffenbach to England on, 326

Platina, brings Government House, 43; Best on, 238, 240

Platypus, described, 147; stuffed, 164

Point Ross, Norfolk Island, signal hoisted at, 205, 209; Best at, 206, 210

Pokioro, pa at Coromandel, 366

Pokowa Teretere (or Pokouatitiri), pa on Waipa River, 355

Pomaray, Pomeray, see Pomare

Pomare, chief of Ngati Awa, attacks Chatham Islands, 49

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Pomare, Ngapuhi chief at Bay of Islands, 219; and Treaty of Waitangi, 220, 221; on Clendon, 220; impresses Best, 220; involved in outbreak at Waimate, 325; comes to Auckland, 334-5

Pomare, senior, of Ngapuhi, lost canoe at Barrier Island, 332; death recalled, 347; surprised Matakitaki, 355

Pongi (or Pongo) of Ngati Whakaue, leads tractable party at Maketu, 383, 384

Porirua, Best to, 245-6, 255; road to made tapu, 322

Porokoru Titipa, described by Gorst, 297n; with Best's party to Taupo, 297-309; with father, 300; meets old enemies, 304; forages for food, 306; a heathen, 306, 307; singing at Taupo, 308; is paid at Taupo, 309; sends boy with Best, 311; advice and farewell, 312; visits Best, 334; offers land for sale, 334; wife greets Best, 350; talk about Maketu and law, 351; with Best to Orakau, 353

Porter, W. F., in Land Claims Bill dispute, 419

Port Jackson, New South Wales, end of voyage at, 143

Port Macquarie, New South Wales, 155

Port Nicholson, Council of, its constitution, 38, 39; Revans quoted on, 39; Hobson's reaction to, 40-3; ordered to disappear, 40, 41, 42, 224; Best on, 223-5, 410

Port Nicholson, settled by New Zealand Company, 37-8; (see also Port Nicholson, Council of); arrival of Best and company, 42, 223-5, 409-10; loyal address from, 43, 232; to be the capital?, 45; sale of sections at, 45-6; native reserves at, 46; delay in settlement, 46; plan of town, 45, 47, 231; uncertainty of land titles, 46, 47, 232-3; New South Wales Land Bill, 47, 48-9, 53, 232-3, 235; Chile plan, 49, 235, 237, 238; harbour dangerous for boats, 240, 258; harbour inaccessible, 240, 258, 261; anniversary celebrations, 53, 272, 275, 276, 277, 413-4; fury against Hobson, 52-3, 271, 277-8, 325; Best dislikes, 235, 259, 324; Best leaves, 278; Hobson visits, 321; reports from, 322-3

Port Phillip, New South Wales, 154

Port Underwood, map, 249; Best visits, 250-3

Prece, see Preece, J.

Preece, J., missionary at Kauaeranga, 316, 317; absent, 318; explains war custom, 362; his land, 363

Preece, Mrs J., limited hospitality, 318, 364

Puata, chief of Pirita pa, Coromandel, 366

Pukatea, swing at, 338, 342, 348

Puke Rewa, 359

Puke Whanake, at Tauranga, fine pa, 394

Puke Whanaki, see Puke Whanake

Pungarehu, chief of Raroera pa, 298, 352; dispute with trader, Edwards, 298, 352

Puniu River, 293n; 351n; rapid stream, 353

Puponga Point, in Manukau Harbour, 283n, 327n; 337

Purapura, canoe limit on Awaroa River, 284

Pura Pura, see Purapura

Putiki, Waiheke Island, 361

Rangetuchera of Capiti, see Rangihaeata of Kapiti

Rangihaeata of Kapiti, 238n; 'greatest savage', 255

Rangi Kahu, hill, 359n

Rangitoto Island, in sight, 320; picnic at, 375

Rangitoto Range, 351

Raroera, pa near Otawhao, 298; Hobson's party at, 352; pork feast, 355

Rattlesnake, HMS, to Bay of Islands, 36

Razor Back Hills, New South Wales, described, 149-150

'Red Cow' inn, New South Wales, approved, 148; also called 'Dun Cow', 159, 176 Regia, to Port Nicholson, 277

Revans, S., editor New Zealand Gazette, 39; on Port Nicholson constitution, 39; on Port Nicholson as capital, 45; on New South Wales Land Bill, 49, 232; Maori interference, 51, 239; on G. S. Evans, 224n; exaggerates Wairarapa report, 270

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Rewa, Ngapuhi chief, and murderer Maketu, 329; at Orakei peace-making, 333, 421

Richards, Captain, at Coromandel, 366; anchors at Tauranga, 367; makes observations, 373

Richmond, Captain M., investigates land claims, 325, 418

Robertson, Mrs, and children, murdered by Maketu, 329, 333

Robertson, Mrs, wife of surgeon, described, 74-5; beats child, 76, 78; drinks brandy, 76; weight of, 78

Robertson, surgeon on James Pattison, described, 74; criticised, 77; and candles, 86; improves Best's quarters, 88; eats greedily, 86, 96, 112; approves privy as prison, 94; distressed by flogging, 95; steals cigars, 97; inquires into night disturbance, 109; reports lack of guard, 116; in liquor inquiry, 121; alarmed at ship's danger, 122-3; delivers Mrs Smith, 131; at leak, 142

Robin Hood Bay, Port Underwood, 250, 413

Robinson, C. B., police magistrate, to Banks Peninsula, 236n

Rodney, seized by Pomare, 49

Rodondo Island, first seen, 139; described and sketched, 139-40

Rodundo Island, see Rodondo Island

Ross, J. C., commanding HMS Erebus and Terror, to Bay of Islands, 335n

Rotorua (Roto Rua), Maunsell to, 296; Maori party from, 304; Hongi at, 311n; Chapman's mission, 313n; Dieffenbach and Symonds to, 321; Yate's account of, 325n; hill above seen, 351; and Tauranga, 368; pipes of, 392; 393n

Rotundo Island, see Rodondo Island

Royal Saxon, takes 80th Regiment to India, 69

Ruahine Range, 323n

Ruapehu, Mount, snowy giant, 308, 309; not climbed, 310; headwaters of Waikato from, 311n

Ruinga, chief near Orere, 361; attitude to Taraia, 361-2; cheated by traders, 362

Runaway, Cape, seen, 372

Runnymede, wrecked, 69-70

Russell, Lord John, Colonial Secretary, approves Hobson's sovereignty proceedings, 44; disapproves of enticing labourers to Auckland, 53; refuses to employ Dieffenbach, 56

Ruototo, avenged husband's death, 353

Ryan, Major, 50th Regiment, at Norfolk Island, 33, 213; at Port Nicholson, 257, 258

St. George, to Auckland with reform boys, 377

Selwyn, Bishop, investigating Taraia affair, 61, 364n; at Tauranga, 65, 387, 435; long journey with Martin, 65, 387; on Pehiakura chapel, 339n; complaint against Best, 68, 435-6

Shamrock, to Bay of Islands, 325

Sharks, welcomed, 104; killed, 104-5; no more to be caught, 105; jaws preserved for Best, 106, 126; at Norfolk Island, 207-8; at Manukau, 281

Sheep, in New South Wales, 14, 26; wool drays, 150; wool pressing, 156

Sheep, in New Zealand, dog chases, 243

Ship Cove, morning song of birds, 255; return to, 257

Shongi, see Hongi

Shortland, Edward, life and works. 58-9; 321n; interest in Maori assembly, 333; Best's second in duel, 58, 336, 423-4; with Hobson and Best to interior, 59-60, 337-360; 338, 340, 341, 344, 346, 352, 353, 356, 359, 360; on Taraia inquiry, 62-3, 361-74; his definition of New Zealanders, 366; at Tauranga, 367, 369, 370, 373; appointed magistrate and subprotector, 374; returns from Waihou, 377; on Tauranga expedition, 63, 65-6, 378-400; to Maketu, 65, 381-4; escorts Maketu men from Tauranga, 389; to Rotorua, 393n; makes peace at Maketu, 393, 394-5; invited to fishing party, 396-7; to mediate in quarrel, 399; left forlorn, 67-8; extracts from his journal, 426-7

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Shortland, Willoughby, acting colonial secretary, 40; in Kororareka affair, 217-9, 405-8; sent to Port Nicholson, 40-2, 223; establishes authority, 41-2, 224-6, 409-10; opinion of Best, 54; police duties, 226; 227; 228; chiefs visit, 230-1; publicises Land Bill, 232; inquires into land sales, 50-1, 234, 239; opposes settlers, 235, 239; forbids assembling with arms, 51, 239; taking away labourers, 238; leaving Port Nicholson, 237, 241, 242; Best meets at Auckland, 279, 282; visits on return from Taupo, 320; on Taraia inquiry, 62-3, 361, 364; acting governor, 63, 378; on Tauranga excursion, 63-4, 378; resolved to regain Farrow's boat, 381; sends Best to spy out Maketu, 381, 384; sends Best to Auckland for troops, 385; his legal officers check use of troops, 65-6, 387-8; conflict with Bunbury, 387, 389; reconciliation, 390; to Auckland, 390; returns, 393; on to Port Nicholson, 66, 393

Shuttleworth, Captain of London, gives dance during gale, 275-6

Sikh war, 70

Sinclair, Dudley, reports on Port Nicholson Council, 40, 43, 44, 224, 243-4; buys land at Auckland, 43; Best meets off Waikanae, 254

Sir Roger Curtis islands, seen, 140

Slanes Castle, emigrant ship, to Port Nicholson, 277

Smart, H. O., Lieutenant, 28th Regiment, to Port Nicholson, 40, 42, 223, 321; police duties, 226; harbour trip, 229; at Te Aro pa, 239; leaving Port Nicholson, 236-7, 242; Best meets in Auckland, 279, 282; owns horse Chance, 331, 416

Smith, James, constable of Port Nicholson Council, 39

Smith, see Smyth, Lieutenant

Smyth, G. B., Lieutenant, 80th Regiment, Best likes him, 153; posted to Port Phillip, 154; mentioned, 155, 156; surprise meeting with, 156; leaves, 157

Snakes, New South Wales, 147, 158, 164

Snodgrass, Colonel, Best calls on, 166, 180

Soldiers, in New South Wales, hard march, 145; soldier's bed, 149; duties as orderly officer, 155, 158, 169, 171; military flogging, 171; march to Paramatta, 179; embarking, 179-90

Soldiers, in New Zealand, at Kororareka affair, 217-9, 406-7; camp at Okiato, 217; improvements, 222-3; to Port Nicholson, 223-5; camp there, 225-6, 227, 410; paid, 237; 'blackguard' charged with theft, 238; ready at Te Aro disturbance, 239; on Port Underwood expedition, 249, 255; Best welcomed by, 270; 'behaved admirably', 274; said to be bribed, 278; barrack-building at Auckland, 279; barracks occupied, 323; at Bay of Islands in tents and horses starving, 237; detachment recalled from Bay, 276; preparation for Tauranga, 385-6; making camp, 389, 390, 391; provisions, 390, 393; wanting a fight, 65; rejoice at leaving, 68; 'a fine body of men', 69

Soldiers, in Norfolk Island, officer's duties, 185; cricket and sports, 189-90; more parades, 200; mutiny, 32-3, 213, 259

Soldiers on James Pattison, muster and embark, 73; number of, 75; borrow convicts' fiddle and dance, 78; difficulty of discipline, 86; cook resigns, 90; row among, 91; enjoy rainwater, 92; drying clothes, 92, 115; grog twice daily in wet, 93; cutting up sharks, 105; two injured by sliding chest, 110; eat sea birds, 118; smoking in barracks, 124; sentries talking and larking, 131; indignant at mate striking cook, 140; preparations for Sydney, 134, 140; individual soldiers:

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Solomon, blind teacher, impresses Best at Otawhao, 296

Sophia Pate, wrecked at Kaipara, 324

Southern Cross, Best not impressed by, 98-9

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Southern lights, described, 138; identified by doctor, 140

Spain, W., commissioner of land claims of New Zealand Company, 330; examines sales at Port Nicholson, 51-2; returns to Auckland, 377; starts on Governor's proposed trip to Port Nicholson, 378; at Auckland, 386; goes to Maketu, 389; reconciles Bunbury and W. Shortland, 390

Stanley, Captain of Brito mart, account of French and Akaroa, 241; dines with Best, 242; buttresses sovereignty at Akaroa, 411

Steeles Point, Norfolk Island, 192

Stewart Island, sovereignty proclaimed over, 37, 41

Stewart, J., of Elizabeth affair, 289n

Strang, R. R., lends books, 242

Street, Tom, Nohorua, brother of Te Rauparaha, 253

Surgeon on James Pattison, see Robertson

Surgeon-superintendent, duties on convict ships, 15-6, 107

Surprize, to Port Nicholson, 276

Swainson, W., appointed attorney-general, 320n; arrives, 325; turns back from Hobson's trip, 337; thinks only tribes who signed Treaty subject to British law, 65, 432-3; rebuked by Colonial Office, 433-4

Sydney, convict settlement, 20; population, 21, 25; described, 25-6, 144; free emigrants to, 26; society, 27; James Pattison preparations for, 134, 140; arrival, 143; Best at, 144, 152, 179-80

Symonds, Captain W. C., background, 54; agent for land company, 54; serves Hobson, 55; official positions, 55; his Manukau station, 54, 283; mentioned, 282; joins Best and Dieffenbach on Waikato, 283, 285; talks of Maori murders, 287, 288, 290; holds court at Kawhia, 289; goes to Waipa, 292; produces grog, 293; deals with escaped prisoners, 294-5; and Te Waru's daughter, 298-9; loses way with Best, 306; Best leaves at Taupo, 312; his walking staff stolen, 319; dines with Best, 326; death of, 55, 328-9, 337; mentioned, 347; in tangi, 350

Tainui, canoe, memorial at Kawhia, 288

Taipari (Tai Pari), chief of Maungatapu, 391; offended by Bunbury refusing present, 391-2; his famous pipe, 392; best chief at Tauranga, 393; signed Treary, 393; views on Best's hospitality and on peace, 394-5; on fishing party, 396-7; formal at dinner, 398

Tairua, Farrow going to, 64, 381; Tortoise reinforcements called from, 386; their arrival, 390

Tangaroa, Ngati Whakaue chief, 63-4, 380; breaks tapu, 64, 380; attacked by Katikati people, 64, 380; kills at Tuhua, 64-5, 380-1; W. Shortland wants to seize, 381; preparing to attack Tauranga, 382; justifies Tuhua attack, 383; retains boat, 384

Tangi, described, 233, 343; Te Wherowhero and Kati in, 343; at Whatawhata, 345, 427; moving at Otawhao, 350; at Otumoetai, 372

Taraia, of Thames, attacks Katikati pa with cannibalism, 61, 361, 363; government response, 61-3, 361, 364-5; G. Clarke on, 61-2; some Maori attitudes to, 61-2, 361-2, 362-3, 366; Shortland's party visit, 62, 364-5; Taraia unrepentant, 62-3, 364; responds to idea of peace, 63, 364-5; his appearance, 365; friendly to Tauranga man, 365; weather prevents return to, 374; has stolen goods returned, 365, 398; exchange of letters with Te Mulu, 365, 370-1, 430-1; Colonial Office shares his view, 434

Taranachie, see Taranaki

Taranaki, pa, see Te Aro, pa

Taranaki, reported attacked by Taupo people, 240, 241, 243, 272, 411-2

Tararua Range, 229; expedition returns from, 236; 323n

Tararu, near Thames, 364

Tarawera, Mount, seen from Maunganui, 372

Taro, vegetable at Te Awaiti, 256; at Taupo, 310

Taupiri hill, mission at, 342n; 343; view of, 351, 356

Taupo, Lake, trip to arranged, 297, 309; mentioned, 300; Best anxious to reach, 305; reached, 307; admired, 308; canoe on, 309; described, 313--4; left, 314

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Taupo, tribe, reported attack by on Taranaki, 240, 241, 243, 272, 411-12; men at Otaki, 310, 312; food plentiful, 310; wars against Hongi, 311-12; war against Ngati Kahungungu, 306; take clothes of Best's party, 312

Tauranga, and Taraia, 63, 370, 373; relatives killed at Tuhua, 64, 381; wants revenge against Maketu, 65; its missionary, 67, 312-13, 368-9, 390, 391; Symonds and Dieffenbach to, 321; attack by expected, 362; harbour and district, 367, 368; land offered for sale, 373; meeting attended by two from Maketu, 388-9; chiefs in order of importance, 391; troops arrive, 387; encamp, 389, 391; and depart, 67

Taurau, signs Treaty, 221-2, 409; in disturbance at Kaipara, 422

Tautitt, first mate of James Pattison, 75; snoring, 86; yams, 87; mentioned, 90; persistent lameness, 112; engaged White the drowned sailor, 128

Tawaroa, chief at Coromandel pa, 366

Tawhite, see Te Awaiti

Taylor, Rev. R., dates Kororareka affair, 217n

Taylor, -----, connected with copper mine on Barrier Island, 379

Te Aro pa (also Taranaki pa), and Colonel Wakefield's land-buying, 50-2, 234; its position, 234n; dispute at, 239

Te Awaiti, visited, 255, 256

Te Cowou, see Apihai te Kawau

Te Gunawai, repulsed by Governor, 359

Te Heuheu, Taupo chief, 309-10; puts tapu on Ngauruhoe, 310; did not sign Treaty, 433 Te Kanae, chief at Otawiru Bay, 251, 253, 302n Te Karaka, 283

Te Maihoa (Broughton), chief, complains about Te Wherowhero, 356-7

Te Mansell, see Te Moke

Te Moke (Te Mansell), with Hobson, 328

T'Muti, pa, 305

Te Mutu, chief at Otumoetai, involved in Taraia affair, 363; Taraia denies this, 365; Te Mutu also denies, 370; letters of Taraia and Te Mutu, 371, 430-1; at Tauranga meeting, 369-70; leads tangi, 372; returns boat Nimble, 390n; his pa and place at Tauranga, 391

Te Papa, mission at Tauranga, 367, 372n; Best to, 381, 385, 387, 390, 391; W. Shortland at, 381, 385, 387; bishop and judge to, 387; meeting at, 388

Te Pe Re (Perere, Pere), Best's guide to Wai-ariki, 244; to Porirua, 245-7; met near Te Awaiti, 256

Te Peti, Maori name for Best, 397, 399

Te Poepoe (Pohipohi), leading chief of Matamata, 377-8; dissatisfied with Governor at Tauranga, 389; E. Shortland on, 391n

Te Puni, Ngati Awa chief of Petone, sells land to Colonel Wakefield, 37, 49-51, 234; drunk, 230, 231, 271; meets Best in Wairarapa, 266; imagined attacked by Ngati Kahungungu, 266-7, 271; returned from Wairarapa, 271

Te Rapa pa, reached by Best's party, 309

Terarau, see Tirarau

Te Rauparaha, Ngati Toa chief, 37; led tribe's migration, 49; visited by Bunbury, 37; is disturbing, 227, 238; sells Wairau, 248n; Best visits, 254; old pa at Kawhia, 288; his attack on Akaroa, 288-9; mentioned, 310

Terawhiti, Cape (Terawhitte), 257

Te Reanuku, see Nga Moni

Te Reroprira, see Te Rauparaha

Te Rore, Cowell has licence at, 289a; Ngapuhi ambushed at, 347n

Terror, HMS, visits Bay of Islands, 335

Te Rua-ou-kou, see Waiuku

'Te Rua Pahu', Best's spaniel, lost, 347; found, 360

Te Rua Pahu, see Ruapehu

Te Tipa, see Porokoru Titipa

Te Tipitipi, of Ngati Whakaue, swims ashore at Maketu, 389

Te Tumu, pa, 66; captured and recaptured, 382, 388; Best to site of, 382, 399

Te Warru, see Te Waru, Hori

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Te Waru, Hori, takes Best's party to Otawhao, 291-6; tells of murder by his daughter, 298-9, 399; takes prisoners to Waitemata, 297, 299; Best talks with at Kawhia, 358

Te Wera Wera, see Te Wherowhero

Te Wharepouri, Ngati Awa chief, sells land to Colonel Wakefield, 37, 49, 234; his village and valley, 229; Best dislikes, 230; drunk, 230-1; reports of, 322, 323n

Te Wherowhero, Waikato chief, receives Best at Manukau, 280; his wars, 280n, 357n; at Matakitaki pa, 296n, 355n; mausoleum of his daughter, 297-8; insult proposed to, 338, 342, 348; Hobson's party meet his family, 341; runaway daughter, 341, 359; moved by tangi, 343; his uncle's carving, 345; at Mangapouri, 348, 353; capital speaking by, 348; sells Taranaki land to Governor, 357, 358; and Pohipohi, 377; his sacred pipe, 392

Te Wirri Wirri, see Te Wherowhero

Thomas, Lieutenant J., whaling at Paremata, 246; absent, 255

Thoms, Joseph, leases his Paremata fishery, 246n; his son-in-law, 253n

Thoms, -----, treasury clerk, to Norfolk Island, 209; entymologist, 210

Thorndon, Maori cultivations at, 50; mentioned, 229, 232

Three Bees, to Tairua for Tortoise reinforcements, 386

Ti (cabbage tree), as food, 344

Ti Nue, see Tainui

Tirarau, chief of Whangarei-Wairoa area, 220; signs Treaty, 221-2, 408-9; leads robberies at Whangarei, 336, 422

Toby, dog, finds sheep in bush, 243; pig-hunting, 255; Best returns for, 262; death of, 281

Tohi te Ururangi, Ngati Whakaue chief, his son embarks at Maketu for Auckland, 63; son is lost at Katikati, 64, 280; speaks fiercely at meeting, 383; quieter, 384; welcomes E. Shortland, 66, 395; writes to Shortland, 398; Best cares for his idiot brother; he begs Best for his son's head, 399

Tomate, Maori boy, bargain with at Taupo, 311; Best delayed by, 316, 317; on boat for Auckland, 320; brings grubs, 327; on Waipa trip, 355; efforts to buy his freedom, 358; takes leave of Best, 358

Tonga Redo, see Tongariro

'Tonga Rero', Best's spaniel, lost, 347; found, 360

Tongariro, Waikato source in, 291, 311, 345; 'a heavy shapeless mountain', 294; plans to climb, 296; Best despairs of climbing, 305; Best sees over Taupo, 308, 309; made tapu, 309-10; climbed by Bidwill, 254n, 310; last sight of, 313; active volcano, 308, 321; not climbed by Dieffenbach, 321

Torkinton, H. T., Ensign, 80th Regiment, journey with Best, 149-52; as Lieutenant to Norfolk Island, 209, 210

Tortoise HMS, at Barrier Island, 378; commander, 381; her assistance offered to military, 386, 390

Tory Channel, 256

Tory, ship, brings Colonel Wakefield to New Zealand, 36; and Dieffenbach, 55; mentioned, 290

Totara, pa, destroyed by Hongi, 363

Toupoo, see Taupo

Tuhua (Mayor Island), attacked by Maketu tribe, 64-5, 381, 382; its cliffs, 387

Tui, bird, not worth shooting, 222; shot for skins, 248

Tumutumu, young chief provokes Best, 356

Tupaea, principal chief of Otumoetai, 391; Clarke's remarks on, 66; Bests opinion of, 66, 391, 395; at Tauranga meeting, 369-70; pig-stealing at Motiti, 390, 391; gentlemanly visit to Best, 394; Best returns visit, 395; did not sign Treaty, 393, 433; Lord Stanley shares his view, 434

Tupaiea, see Tupaea

Turner, W., settler on Waipa, his hospitality, 293; his wife's hospitality, 348; his house passed, 354

Turner, -----, Deputy Assistant Commissary General, to Norfolk Island, 196; sings, 196; to Phillip Island, 201; shooting, 205; succeeds Arnold, 209

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Turton, H. H., Aotea missionary approved by Best, 287-8; receives Hobson's party, 357, 359; Shortland's comment on, 357n

Tutukamoana pa, near Taupo, 306-7

Tuwahine, Best in love with, 307, 308; Maria even prettier than, 358

Tyne, brings legal officers, 325

Tyssen, Lieutenant, 179; arrives at Norfolk Island, 194; shooting, 195, 204, 205; to Nepean Island, 198; to Phillip Island, 201

Victoria, Government brig, takes Hobson to Port Nicholson, 321, 326; governmental excursion on, 378; to Barrier Island, 379, 386; to Tauranga, 380, 381; takes Best to Auckland, 385; takes W. Shortland and suite to Auckland, 390; to Tauranga en route to Port Nicholson, 393

Victoria, Mount, at Auckland, 375

Waddy, -----, 50th Regiment, on kangaroo hunt, 151

Waharoa, chief of Matamata, his Ngati Haua against Maketu and Rotorua, 304n, 317, 382n, 388; Christian son, 377n; plunders hosts at Otumoetai, 388

Wai-ariki, near Port Nicholson, 241n; duck-shooting at, 244

Waiau (Coromandel Harbour), Preece at, 318; Best comment on, 319; he sails from, 319; Pomare's canoe at, 322; Shortland's party at, 365-6

Wai Eo, see Waiau

Waiharakeke, on Waihou River, 316

Wai Heke, see Waiheke Island

Waiheke Island, passed, 320; belongs to Ngati Whatua, 332; its natives visit mainland, 361; ship shelters under, 366

Wai Heregege, see Waiharakeke

Wai Ho, see Waihou River

Waihou River, 316; mud flats at mouth, 318; proposals to sell land on, 363, 378; E. Shortland returns from, 377, 398

Waikanae, fears Ngati Raukawa, 235; reported attack on by Taupo natives, 240, 241, 272; Best visits, 254-5

Wai Karora, on coast between Waikato River and Raglan Harbour, 285

Waikato River, trip to proposed, 281; arrangements for, 283; mentioned, 284; Best's party reach, 284--5; source in Tongariro, 291, 311; distances from Waipa, 293; rapids, 302-3; ancient bed, 303; alleged route of Hongi, 311; Best crosses at Taupo, 313 4; good bridge over, 315; Hobson's party to, 339-45, 360; river names, 345

Waikato (Te Puata), leading chief, 295; his pa Maketu near Otawhao, 297

Waikato tribe, forced Ngati Awa to migrate, 49, 353, 357n; war against Ngapuhi, 280n, 296n, 311n, 347, 355; war with Ngati Haua against Rotorua and Maketu, 304n, 311n, 317n; at Orakei peace-making, 333; chiefs take payment for Taranaki, 357n

Wai Korere, name applied to Tauranga camp, 393, 396, 398, 399

Waimapu Stream, at Tauranga, 372

Wai Mate, on Waikato, 340

Wainga Roa, see Whaingaroa

Wainuiomata Valley, 229; 263

Waipa River, mentioned, 290; tracks to, 291; Best describes, 293, 345; Hobson's party on, 345-8; plains of, 347; navigability, 347, 353; freshes, 354

Wai pa River, see Waipa River

Waipa Stream, 315

Waipapa River, romantic bridge, 303

Wai Rake, small stream between Tauranga and Maketu, 389, 398

Wairakei Valley, 314n

Wairarapa, brother of Moturoa, 233; described, 234; brings case to Shortland, 227; on expedition with Best, 261-3; unwell, 263; present to Best, 271

Wairarapa, Mrs, furious in argument, 228

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Wai ra rapa, see Wairarapa

Wairarapa Valley, Best's expedition to, 261-70; arrival, 264; pig-hunting, 264-5; night alarms, 266-7; description, 267-9; New Zealand Gazette exaggerates, 270; Best denies settlers' right to, 269, 271; tracks to, 323

Wairoa River, at Tauranga, 368; Puke Whanake pa on, 394n

Waitangi River, Best explores, 221

Waitangi, Treaty of, 37; signed by northern chiefs, 37, 220-2, 408-9; Bunbury collects signatures, 37, 220, 227, 392; Williams ditto, 40; Symonds ditto, 55; sovereignty proclaimed before signing complete, 41, 383, 393, 433; legal officers doubt if sovereignty complete, 41, 387, 393, 432-4; Colonial Office answer, 433-4

Waitemata, site of Auckland, selected, 54, 237; founded, 45, 237n; mentioned, 311; Best embarks for, 319

Wai ti, William, see Awaitaia

Waitoa Stream (Wai Toa), 316

Wai-tuna, see Kaituna

Waiuku, portage, Best at, 284

Wai Wata Wata, see Whatawhata

Waiwhetu River, described, 229; 235

Wakatiwai, see Whakatiwai

Wakefield Club, first meeting, 247

Wakefield, Colonel W., on Tory to New Zealand, 36; buys land at Port Nicholson, 37-8, 49-51, 234; and Dudley Sinclair, 43; visits Hobson, 45, 47, 232; returns to Port Nicholson, 236; thanks Shortland for his land negotiations, 51; appeals to Franklin over labourers, 52; extends land arrangements to Wanganui, 53, 326; formerly of Spanish Legion, 225n, 226; Best visits, 226, 228, 247, 257, 277; lends Brougham to Best and Murphy, 249

Wakefield, E. G., New Zealand as 'ideal colony', 36

Wakefield, E. J., on Lieutenant Thomas as whaler, 246n; on Wakefield Club, 247n; on J. Wynen, 250n; on Maoris at Port Underwood, 251, 253; Best meets off Waikanae, 254; has stone Maori pipe, 392; on flag-raising at Port Nicholson, 409-10; on Best as soldier, 412; on Port Underwood, 412-3; on Port Nicholson celebrations, 277n, 413

Waldron, -----, commissariat clerk, arrives Norfolk Island, 196

Walker, Mrs, of 'Red Cow' inn, Paramatta, 148, 159, 176, 179

Wallace, J., see Wallis, J.

Wallis, J., missionary at Whaingaroa, 287, 355; had road made, 287; sends horse for Governor, 355, 356; receives Hobson's party, 357, 359; Shortland's comment on, 356n

Wallis, Mrs J., hospitality of, 287; Shortland's comment on, 356n

Wanganui, rumours of fighting at, 272, 322n; tale of cannibalism at, 322; New Zealand

Company buying land there, 53; difficulties over, 326

Wangape Lake, fish spawn in, 344

Wangari, see Whangarei

Wangaroa, see Whaingaroa

Warre Koura, of Kawhia, cousin of Porokoru Titipa, 334

Warreponia, see Te Wharepouri

Webster, W., of Coromandel Harbour, 319n; at Barrier Island, 378n

Weka, described, 257; cries heard, 292

Wellington, Best's first use of name, 277

Welman, Ensign, to Bay of Islands, 325; to Auckland, 376; at Tauranga, 393

Whaingaroa (Raglan), harbour, 286, 287, 359; geology, 286-7; Best's party at, 286-7; murders discussed, 287; Hobson's party at, 356-7, 359

Whakatane, quarrel with Opotiki, 399

Whakatiwai, 342

Whales, first seen, 89; spouting noted, 134; two finbacks, 141; killer whales attack right whale or humpback, 188

Whanaki (Wanaki), killed and eaten by Taraia, 63, 361, 363; wife seen, 372, wife indiscreet, 395-6; Tupaea to collect bones of, 391

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Whangarei, settlers robbed at, 336, 422-3

Wharepapa Stream, 264

Wharrepaupa, see Wharepapa

Wharrepaupa, tells of monster, 262

Wharre Pore, see Te Wharepouri

Whata whata, Hobson's party at, 346, 426-7

White Island (Whakari), seen, 373

Whiteley, J., missionary at Kawhia, 288n, 358; journal quoted, 288n, 289n, 290n; Symonds visits, 290; receives Hobson's party, 358; to arrange Tomate's freedom, 358

White's Bay, at Port Underwood, 251

William Wai Ti, see Awaitaia

Williams, E., in Kororareka affair, 407-8

Williams, Henry, estimates population of North Island, 36; and Treaty of Waitangi, 37, 40; at Port Nicholson, 40; on Waikato bridge, 315n; on Kororareka affair, 407-8

Wilsons Promontory, coasted, 139, 140; contrasted with Cape Otawy, 140

Wilton, -----, drowned at Cloudy Bay, 249, 251-2

Windsor, New South Wales, headquarters of 80th Regiment, 34; population and appearance, 144n; Best to, 146; Best returns to, 152, 167; band in Government Domain, 153, 159

Wingello, New South Wales, 150

Wi Tako, chief of Kumutoto pa, 274; at Auckland, 323

Wood, -----, commander of HMS Buffalo, disliked by Best and Bunbury, 216, 217, 219

Wood, -----, commander of Tortoise, his blue light alarms, 381; offers assistance to military, 386

Wood pigeon or kukupa, poor sport, 222; 'kookoos' near Waikato River, 284

Wood quest, shot at Norfolk Island, 192-3, 205; poor sport at Bay of Islands, 222; at Port Nicholson, 230; Byron's term, 246; at Porirua, 246; at Orongorongo, 263; (see also Wood pigeon)

Woody Head, see Karioi

Wyatt, -----, 50th Regiment, Best shoots with, 157-8, 171-2; wallaby hunt, 174; picnic, 177

Wye Kerrick, see Wai ariki

Wye Noue Omata, see Wainuiomata

Wyderop, see Wairarapa

Wye-te-mate, see Waitemata

Wykani, see Waikanae

Wykato, River, see Waikato, River

Wynen, J., 250n

Wyning, Mr, see Wynen

Wytangi, see Waitangi River

Wywatu, see Waiwhetu

Yate, W., his book despised, 325

Young, -----, marries Miss Hargreaves, 321

R. E. OWEN, GOVERNMENT PRINTER, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND--1966

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