Note

The printed text of the journal follows the microfilm copy of the manuscript in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. No corrections of spelling or slips of the pen have been made. The only alterations have been some few additions in punctuation and the adoption of a uniform style for the dates of the journal entries. It will be noticed that the dates are sometimes confusing. These are as written. But a few obvious errors in the sequence of days have been corrected. The reader is referred to the index as a key to all Maori names with variant spellings.