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of sufficient depth to float large vessels. The one which is named the Waikaddi, advances for ten miles in a south easterly direction to within a short distance of the coast, forming, with the eastern coast of the Bay of Islands, a large peninsula, indented with many subordinate bays and penin sulas, on one of which is formed the settlement of Korora- dika, and on another the site of a new township, which Governor Hobson founded some months afterwards, by the name of Russell. The other great arm, which is called the Kawa Kawa, runs for some miles into the interior, in a westerly direction. Its shores, like those of the Waikaddi are deeply indented with small bays and headlands, and its broad waters afford a capacious anchorage, land-locked on every side by an elevated country. Between every pro montory there are spaces of level land covered with a dense vegetation, and furnishing an excellent and produc tive soil, when elevated above the reach of high tides. The slopes of the numerous hills are also loaded with a pro fuse and various vegetation, which, however, comprises but few trees. It consists principally of ferns, the young shoots of which are eaten by cattle; of the myrtle, or tea-tree, the manuka of the natives, and of a variety of shrubs, one of which, the tutu, produces pendent clusters of berries, from which the New Zealanders extract a species of wine, which has rather a soothing and narcotic effect, and strongly reminded me of elder-berry wine. I had an opportunity of witnessing the poisonous effects of the tutu berry upon the child of an inhabitant of Koro- radika. The symptoms resembled those caused by an overdose of opium, affecting the nervous and muscular systems, and producing coma, or insensibility, with partial paralysis, dilated pupils, and convulsive twitches of the k 2