Ngamotu Tribe.

Third. Ngamotu: The claims of this tribe extend from the Waiwakaiho River on the north to the Sugarloaves on the south; a line of demarcation has been drawn by them from the northern to the southern boundary, which line is about two miles from the sea-beach. This they are willing to sell, stating that at a future period they would prefer selling their lands gradually in smaller portions, rather than in extensive blocks. Their ideas, and those of the Natives generally, of the value of land are extravagant, arising in a great measure from exaggerated statements made by Europeans, of the price they have paid for the lands they occupy, which tends so much to enhance and overrate in their minds the value of land that nothing but a desire which I am glad to observe they express to have the Europeans settled amongst them would induce them to accept of a moderate compensation.