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converted into a pa as a place of defence not only against strangers, but 
perhaps from its nearest neighbours: the men were all regularly trained 
to fight, made to run, wrestle, paddle so as to be in active condition, 
taught the use of weapons for both offence and defence; in short war 
was their delight, and any cause however trivial was eagerly sought as 
an excuse for waging it; the slain were almost invariably cooked and 
eaten. 
The Europeans with whom they had come in contact were not of a 
class calculated to make themselves either loved or respected, a few run- 
away sailors or convicts being the only whites living on shore ; whilst the 
treatment which the natives received from the masters of whaling or trading 
vessels, when powerful enough to get their own way, may be gathered from 
the terms of the instructions of Governor Macquarie, when he appointed Mr. 
Kendall the first Resident Magistrate in New Zealand, in November, 1814 :— 
** Whereas it has been represented to His Excellency the Governor that 
commanders and seamen of vessels touching at or trading with the Islands 
of New Zealand, more especially at the Bay of Islands, have been in the 
habit of offering gross insult and injury to the natives of those places by 
violently seizing on and carrying off several of them, both men and women, 
and treating them in other respects with injudieious and unwarrantable 
severity, to the great prejudice of the fair intercourse of trade, which might 
otherwise be productive of mutual advantages." The same instructions also 
declared that no sailors should be discharged or left behind at the bay, or 
natives shipped thereat, without the written consent of one of the three 
chiefs Tuatara, Hongi, or Korakora. Between bloodthirstiness on the one 
side, and lawlessness on the other, what slight prospects existed of peaceful 
relations for defenceless immigrants ! 
Our * settlers” brought with them sheep, cattle, horses, goats, poultry 
of all kinds, tools, seeds both for their own use and for their new friends. 
The chiefs on board, too, had a horse or cow apiece, so that landing and 
securing their live stock became their first care. Raupo whares were put 
up for themselves, and another set apart for their goods; two of the 
assigned men were sawyers, the third a smith, and the Kawakawa natives 
having engaged to fall logs for building the projected houses and church 
at Ohi, (which was in close proximity to Rangihoua), and also for cargo 
for the brig, an excursion was made in her to the Thames by Mr. 
Marsden. 
Trouble soon began, for though the native men were only annoying by 
their curiosity, the women, who even then were not famed for virtue, caused 
a jealous feeling by their attempts at over-intimacy. The “Active,” with 
Mr. Marsden and Mr. Nicholas, left at the end of February, with a good 
