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introduction of his religion. He did not benefit, however, by his connection with the 

 English. They stole his favourite daughter, his most promising son died from a disease 

 contracted in England, and though the survivors of the Boyd massacre were rescued 

 by him at the peril of his life, the Europeans, who took a blind and indiscriminating 

 iv\rnge for that deed of blood, destroyed his village, put his people to the sworcl, and 

 severely wounded himself, lie died at the hands of the Whangaroa natives for his act 

 of humanity in saving and protecting the survivors of the Boyil affair. 



In 1807 Mr. Marsden accompanied Governor King to Europe, and enlisted the aid 

 of the Church Missionary Society in establishing a mission settlement in New Zealand. 

 On his return to the colony in 1810 he brought with him two lay catechists for his 

 mission. Messrs. King and Hall were both craftsmen, who expected to follow their 

 useful and most honourable; callings carpentering, and the working in iron and by their 

 life and conversation to teach the natives the arts of civilization as well as the truths 

 of Christianity and its benefits. It was not until his return to Sydney that .Marsden heard 

 of the disaster to the AViv/. This vessel, bound to England from Port Jackson, and 

 carrying many passengers, had been burned ID the water's edge at Whangaroa, about 

 the end of November, 1809, and over seventy persons killed and eaten. Eour only of 



all the passengers and 

 crew were spared a 

 woman, a cabin-boy, 

 and two little damsels, 

 both natives of New 

 South Wales. 



It had been pur- 

 posed by the merchants 

 in Sydney about this 

 time to form a New 

 /ealand Company in 

 New South Wales, and 

 ihe preliminary ar- 

 rangements had been 

 completed before news 

 of the massacre came 

 to Port Jackson ; but 

 when the tragedy was 

 made known the idea 

 was abandoned, and 

 the catechists for the 



New Zealand Mission proceeded to Parramatta, to wait for a time when the public indigna- 

 tion had cooled. Local feeling ran so high that it was hardly safe for a Maori to be 

 seen in the streets of Sydney. Meanwhile Mr. Kendall came to join the Mission, but he 

 also was sent with his wife and family to Parramatta until continued peace on the New 

 /ealand Coast begat confidence. During the time of the disorder in New South Wales, 

 consequent on the Governorship of Captain liligh and his successors, a disastrous license 



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