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. / 1 -STRALASIA ILL USTRA TED. 



Some of the sailors on King's ships were sufficiently charmed by the prospect of a 

 semi-savage life among the Maoris to be readily induced to throw in their lot with the 

 tribe and remain in the country. There were from time to time a good many settlers 

 of this class, of whom George Bruce was one. When the chief Te Pahi was returning 

 from his voluntary trip to Sydney, this sailor had shown him considerable kindness 

 during his illness on the voyage, and on the chief's arrival in his own country he easily 

 persuaded young Bruce, with the offer of his daughter and a large piece of land, to 

 leave his ship and remain. The young Englishman allowed himself to be tattooed, and 



conformed in every respect to the customs of 

 the tribe. When he learnt the language he made 

 himself very useful to the whalers by interpreting 

 between them and the natives, by whom he was 

 held in high estimation, until the arrival of an 

 English vessel, the General M'cllcslcy. Captain 

 Dalrymple persuaded the lad, on the faith of a 

 solemn promise of return, to come on board 

 with his wife and assist in the search for gold 

 near the North Cape. The search was not 

 successful, and Dalrymple carried off his guests. 

 He left Bruce at Malacca, but conveyed his 

 wife away with him in his ship, selling her after- 

 wards to the captain of another vessel at Penang. 

 Bruce found her here after persistent search, 

 ami by invoking the aid of the authorities suc- 

 ceeded in getting his wife restored to him. They were given a passage to Calcutta, where 

 they hoped to find a ship going to Sydney ; but at this point the story loses them, 

 and the daughter of Te Pahi and her husband returned to her native land no more. 



Captain Enderby has recorded that whalers visited the dependency in 1 794, and 

 from that date to the present time the New Zealand waters have been frequented by 

 the whaling vessels of many nations. In the full flush of the whaling trade, over a hun- 

 dred vessels called at the Bay of Islands during the year, and Pomare, the grandfather 

 of Hare Pomare, for whom Her Majesty became godmother, kept at one time ninety- 

 six slave girls, who were in the habit of forming temporary unions with whaling visitors. 

 Thus, each successive industry established in New Zealand the sealing, felling and ship- 

 ment of timber, whaling, the preparation of flax each of which required the presence 

 of European workmen on shore for considerable portions of time, led to the establish- 

 ment of friendship between the Europeans and natives, resulting in unions which were 

 sometimes of life-long continuance, and thus gradually prepared the country for those 

 amicable relations which so much facilitated the first establishment of a small number of 

 European settlers in a country possessing so large and warlike a native population. 



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EARLY MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE. 



During the latter part of the days of Governor King, from 1805 to 1807, the first 

 natives voluntarily went to England and to New South Wales. Te Pahi, the famous 



THE REV. SAMUEL .MAKSDEN. 



