Nicholas's description, of the crowded days, the meetings with the leading chiefs, the short journeys, with his full impressions of Maori culture are of the greatest value. His narrative, told in standard 18th century prose, is a useful parallel to the more volatile but succinct and direct record kept by Marsden. Nickolas's retelling of the Boyd massacre, as related by the leaded "George", is the first account from the Maori standpoint.

P.[327]-353 contain a Maori-English vocabulary and sentences, doubtless supplied by Kendall, with some Tongan parallels. The sentences are the same as those in A korao no New Zealand (1815) but the vocabulary is longer that that in the earlier work. The appendices contain a section from Collins' history of New South Wales dealing with Tiki and Huru, the Maoris taken to Norfolk Island; extracts from Turnbull's A voyage round the world in the years 1800? (1813) on Te Pehi and George Bruce and, finally, Marsden's Memoirs of Duaterra " written for the C.M.S." - Bagnall, 4268