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and others massacred men, women, and children of the con- 

 quered race, and laid them out on the sandy beach touching 

 one another, some of the women being left to die with stakes 

 thrust into them. 



It may be of interest to compare with this account the 

 brief remarks on the Morion race made by the Bishop of New 

 Zealand, who visited Chatham Island in 1848: " In appear- 

 ance they are not very different from the New-Zealanders f 

 and their language at the time of the invasion (about ten 

 vears ago) was perfectly intelligible to the Ngatiawa Tribe, 

 who usurped their territory. Their name, as spoken by them- 

 selves, is ' tangata Maoriori,' differing from the name of the 

 New Zealand people only in the reduplication of the last 

 svllables ; but the conquerors have given them the title of 

 ' Paraiwhara,' the meaning of which I could not ascertain. 

 Their number at the time of my visit, by a careful census 

 which I took of the names of men, women, and children, was 

 268 ; but the very small number of children and the un- 

 married state in which they seemed for the most part to be 

 living w T ould lead me to fear that they were rapidly decreas- 

 ing. The relation in which they stand to the New-Zealanders 

 is not satisfactory. They have been reduced to the condition 

 of serfs, and are obliged to obey the orders of every little 

 child of the invading race. The common expression of 

 ' Ngare Paraiwhara ' (Send a Paraiwhara) shows that a 

 ' fagging ' system has been established, more injurious, per- 

 haps, to the masters than to the servants, as there is no 

 appearance of harshness or severity, but a great decrease of 

 personal activity in the dominant race. A long residence on 

 the island would be necessary to do away entirely with this 

 evil ; but I did what I could in a short visit by paying 

 personal attention to the poor Paraiwhara, and explaining 

 how they were descended from the elder branch of the family 

 of Noah, by which they obtained the name of the ' tuakana o 

 te Pihopa' (the elder brother of the Bishop). They are a 

 cheerful and willing people, and, like many persons in a 

 subordinate station, more obliging than their masters. Amus- 

 ing stories are told of the first invasion of the island, at which 

 time the chief food of the Paraiwhara was the supply of eels 

 from the numerous lakes which cover perhaps half the sur- 

 face. When potatoes were first given to them they impaled 

 them upon skewers, after the manner of cooking eels, and sat 

 watching till the oil should drop from them. Their canoes 

 are ingeniously made of small sticks carefully tied together, 

 as there is no wood on the island suitable for a solid canoe."* 



*" Church in the Colonies (No. xx., New Zealand, part v.): A 

 Journal of the Bishop's Visitation Tour through his Dioce=e, including a 



