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were again visited by Europeans and brought a little into notice. During 
the last ten years of the century vessels occasionally visited the coast, and 
in 1794 the two natives who had been taken to Norfolk Island were returned, 
with pigs, potatoes, maize, and other useful seeds, which they assiduously 
cultivated. 
60. From the year 1800 to the year 1840.—The beginning of this century 
first found the New Zealanders visiting the European colonies. Te Pahi 
and his five sons visited New South Wales, to which place the father again 
returned in 1808. In 1806 Moehanga visited London, whither also 
Matara, one of Te Pahi’s sons (who had been to New South "Wales) 
went in 1807, and Tuatara in 1809. Matara, while in England, was intro- 
duced to the Royal Family ; and all returned to their native country laden 
with presents. In 1815 a chief named Maui visited England, followed, 
in 1818, by two others, Tui and Titore. During these years the New 
Zealanders, having had the worst propensities of their native character 
inflamed, were active in seizing ships and murdering their crews, among 
which the * Boyd" at Whangaroa, the “ Agnes” at Tokomaru, a whaler at Wha- 
nganui, and the * Sydney Cove" at South-east Cape, may be noticed. Every 
ship approaching the coast had boarding-nets for proteetion. Love of 
murder and greed for plunder stirred up the coast natives generally to be on 
the watch for prey, whilethe Europeans sometimes retaliated by shooting or 
encouraging the shooting of “a race of treacherous cannibals.” In 1890 the 
two Ngapuhi chiefs, Hongi and Waikato, also visited England, returning to 
New Zealand the following year. Hongi brought back with him a large 
amount of arms and ammunition, which enabled him and his allies to commit 
much wholesale slaughter. The N gapuhi (or Bay of Islands) tribes, being 
well armed with muskets, revelled in destruction, slaying thousands at Kai- 
para, Manukau, Tamaki, the Thames, the interior of Waikato on to Rotorua, 
and even to Taranaki; and they also came in their canoes so far south as 
Ahuriri, in Hawke Bay, remorselessly destroying everywhere as they went. 
Not content with this, they subsequently turned their arms against them- 
selves and the tribes in their neighbourhood, where eventually Hongi himself 
received the wound which caused his death. The tribes further noth were 
also fighting against each other; only ending in the Rarawa destroying the 
Aopouri, who were very numerous about the North Cape. Te Wherowhero, 
at the head of his people, was slaughtering for many years on the West 
Coast, from Taranaki to Whanganui and Entry Island; Te Waharoa and 
other chiefs, in the interior and overland to Hawke Bay; the Rotorua tribes 
in the Bay of Plenty ; and Te Rauparaha exterminating in the neighbourhood 
of Cook Strait and along the east coast of the South Island. From 1822 to 
_1837 was truly a fearful period in New Zealand. Blood flowed like water. 
