on which occasion some sixty of his companions were slaughtered, and he escaped almost miraculously. Whilst proceeding on a friendly excursion to the people of Tauranga, Moko landed on the Great Barrier Island. Several natives of the Thames country perceiving the arrival of a large war canoe from the northward, paddled with all speed to Wyho, and spread the alarming intelli gence that the Ngapouis, their old enemies, were coming. Thereupon an expedition departed for the Barrier Island, headed by the principal chiefs of Wyho. The Ngapouis, fatigued with one or two day’s paddling, fancied them selves secure in their resting place, and resigned them selves to slumber; from which they were awakened by the war shout of their enemies, and, after an ineffectual resistance, overpowered and slain. Moko, alone, a valiant and prudent warrior, contrived in the dusk to secrete himself, and remained for two days in the crevice of a rock; and at length, to his inexpressible satisfaction, he saw his ruthless enemies paddling towards Wyho, in what was no longer his own canoe. He then emerged from his place of concealment, and, having subsisted for a few days on clams and other marine productions, beheld the approach of an English boat, which he eagerly hailed, and learned from the two persons on board that they were on their way to the Bay of Islands. With them Moko escaped ; but as a bonus for their generosity he was under the sad necessity of delivering up his double- barrelled gun. The natives of Wyho have, with the exception of a few old men and women, adopted the tenets of Christ ianity ; a change which is due to the zealous efforts of Mr. Preece, of the Church of England mission. This o 3