Chapter 6

YEARS OF THE RIGHT HAND (1838-1840).

Re-occupation of Rotorua and Tauranga--Visit to Opotiki--Station there --Maunsell at Waikato Heads--Visit of Bishop Broughton--Influenza-- Octavius Hadfield--The east coast--Taumatakura--W. Williams moves to Poverty Bay--Ripahau at Cook Strait--Rauparaha--Tamihana learns from Ripahau--Tamihana and Te Whiwhi come to Bay of Islands--Hadfield offers to return with them--H. Williams and Hadfield visit Port Nicholson--Kapiti--Work of Ripahau--Peace-making--Williams at Whanganui--Ascends the river--Village bells--March to Taupo--Tauranga --Wairarapa--The instructions of Karepa.