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were again visited by Europeans and brought a little into notice. During 

 tte 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 Nev/ 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 Eoyal 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 protection. Love of 

 murder and greed for plunder stirred up the coast natives generally to be on 

 the watch for prey, while the Europeans sometimes retaliated by shooting or 

 encouraging the shooting of " a race of treacherous cannibals." In 1820 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 Ngapuhi (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 north were 

 also fighting against each other ; only ending in the Earawa 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 Eotorua tribes 

 in the Bay of Plenty ; and Te Eauparaha exterminating in the neighbourhood 

 of Cook Strait and along the 6ast coast of the South Island. Erom 1822 to 

 1837 was truly a fearful period in New Zealand. Blood flowed like water. 



