The two head-chiefs of Port Nicholson. Plate 1. From the book: Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand

Accompanying text reads: These two chiefs sold the site of the present Wellington Settlement to Colonel Wakefield, the Principal Agent of the New Zealand Company, in September 1839. Warepori was renowned as a great warrior and an eloquent orator. His former high rank was scarcely acknowledged by the Government authorities, after their establishment in June 1840. He pined under the degradation; repudiated his bargain in 1841; and died, a beggar and a drunkard, in December 1842... These portraits were drawn at the time of the purchase in 1839. The Company's ship the Tory, ... appear[s] in the back-ground.