“The captain now consented to take me along with him; and, the canoe having been set adrift, we stood off from the island. For the first sixteen months of my residence in New Zealand, I had counted the days by means of notches on a stick; but after that I had kept no reckoning. I now learned, however, that the day on which I was taken off the island was January 9th, 1826. I had, therefore, been a prisoner among these savages ten years, all but two months.” Captain Jackson now gave Rutherford such clothes as he stood in need of, in return for which the latter made him a present of his New Zealand dress and battle axe. The ship then proceeded to the Society Islands, and anchored on February 10th off Otaheite. Here Rutherford went into the service of the British consul, by whom he was employed in sawing wood. On May 26th he was married to a chief woman, whose name, he says, was Nowyrooa, by Mr. Pritchard, one of the English missionaries. While he resided here, he was also employed as an interpreter by Captain Peachy, of the “Blossom” sloop of war, then engaged in surveying those islands. Still, however, longing very much to see his native country, he embarked on January 6th, 1827, on board the brig “Macquarie,” com manded by Captain Hunter, and bound for Port Jackson. On taking leave of his wife and friends, he made them a promise to return to