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capture of my father. When I returned and arrived in Wellington, I went 
on board the ‘Calliope,’ the man-of-war in which my father was a prisoner, 
to see him. When I saw him we cried together, and when we finished he 
said to me, ‘Son, go to your tribes and tell them to remain in peace. Do not 
pay for my arrest with evil, only with that which is good. You must love 
the Europeans. There was no just cause for my having been arrested by 
Governor Grey. I have not murdered any Europeans, but I was arrested 
through the lies of the people. If I had been taken prisoner in battle it 
would have been well, but I was unjustly taken.’ I returned on shore with 
Matene and went to Porirua, and there saw Ngatitoa and Rawhiri Puaha. ` 
We told them the words of Rauparaha respecting good and our living at 
peace. We then went on to Otaki and repeated the same words. At this 
time we (two) caused the town of Hadfield to be built at Otaki. From this 
time Ngatiraukawa and Ngatitoa commenced to do right. At this time a 
party of Ngatiraukawa came to Ngatiwakatere at Manawatu—this was the 
tribe that befriended Rangihaeata ;—200 of the tribe came on to Otaki, and 
when they arrived we assembled. Rangihaeata invited these people that they 
might know the thoughts of Matene and myself respecting Rauparaha, who 
was held as a captive on board the vessel. He wished to destroy Wellington 
and kill the Europeans as a satisfaction. J told them the words of Rauparaha 
when we (two) went to see them (i.¢., the chiefs) and the young men. I told 
them they must put an end to this foolish desire, and not hearken to the 
tikanga of Rangihaeata, but that they must live in peace and cease that bad 
desire. They consented. The Ngatiraukawa consented to build that town, 
that they might obtain a name. When Rauparaha was liberated in the year 
1846, he urged Ngatiraukawa to build a large church in Hadfield Town, at 
Otaki. Had he not returned, the church would not have been built. He had 
a great desire to worship the great God. He was continually worshipping 
until he died at Otaki on the 27th November, 1849.” 
Such is the history of the life and times of a very remarkable man, and 
of habits and customs which have already become so much things of the past 
that in the course of another generation there will be scarcely an aboriginal 
native left who will have the slightest knowledge of them. Indeed, the 
memory of the events I have related is already becoming indistinct, even to 
those of the principal actors in these events who are still living, 
