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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 ghastly history the brief 

 remarks on the Moriori race made by the Bishop of New 

 Zealand, who visited Chatham Island in 1848. The 

 following quotation is taken from a work entitled, 

 " Church in the Colonies, No. XX., New Zealand, Part V. 

 "A Journal of the Bishop's Visitation tour through his 

 " diocese, including a visit to the Chatham Islands, in the 

 "year 1848." (London: Printed for the Society for the 

 Propagation of the Gospel, and sold by the Society for 

 promoting Christian Knowledge, 1851). 



The Bishop of New Zealand's Account of the 

 Moriori Race (1848). 



" In appearance they are not very different from the 

 New Zealanders ; and their language at the time of the 

 invasion (about ten years ago) was perfectly intelligible 

 to the Ngatiawa tribe, who usurped their territory. 

 Their name, as spoken by themselves, is Tangata 

 Maoris;-/, differing from the name of the New Zealand 

 people only in the reduplication of the last syllables ; 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 

 unmarried state in which they seemed for the most part 

 to be living, would lead me to fear that they were rapidly 

 decreasing. 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 



