A Memory of Bully Hayes.

The Cook family of the Bay of Islands are part Maori, and George Cook speaks Maori with the accuracy and knowledge of the old-time people. He remembers well the great Tamati Waka Nene, an elder of his mother's people; he gave the family a piece of land in the centre of Kororareka, now Russell, facing the present wharf.

When he was a boy, Mr. Cook lived with his parents at Rarotonga for some years, and there they were visited by the celebrated Bully Hayes, who came in to Avarua Bay in his brig, the “Rona,” bringing the Rev. James Chalmers and the crew of the wrecked mission ship, “John Williams.” Hayes in fact, stayed with the Cooks while he was at Rarotonga. He had his wife and their two little girls with him.

Mr. Cook well remembers what a big, fine looking man Bully was. He wore his hair long, and curled up in a wave at the back, in the manner of many sailors and American gold-diggers and frontiersmen of those days.

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