Pito-one

Ngaiti was on deck waiting to board the ship's boat that would take him ashore. This was the day he would be leaving the Tory and ending his employment with the New Zealand Company. He was saying goodbye to his best friends, Andrew, and a tearful Eleanor. Promises were made to remain in contact, to see each other frequently and not become strangers. Colonel Wakefield, Charles Heaphy, Jerningham Wakefield and Doctor Ernst Dieffenbach, the company's naturalist, appeared ...