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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 Eesident 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 injudicious 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 ! 



Oar " 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 ivhares 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 Kangihoua), 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 



