The Party were in Imminent Danger

for an hour and a half, and, to make matters worse, the last twenty minutes of the perilous journey was traversed in the dark. But, after being half drowned by the huge seas which continually broke over the canoe, the party were safely landed and heartily welcomed by Mr. Robson, Mr. Lambert, and Mr. Johnston, of Wairoa, who were in waiting with a kettle of boiling water and a bottle of whiskey. They applied the latter restorative unsparingly. The party then proceeded on horseback to the Native settlement, a distance of three miles, where a splendid dinner and welcome, and, what they urgently needed, a gigantic fire awaited them. Wet through to the flannel as he was, and without a change of clothing, the