﻿ColenSo. 
  — 
  tr/norance 
  of 
  Ancient 
  New 
  Zealajuler 
  of 
  Use 
  of 
  Projectiles. 
  Ill 
  

  

  especially 
  to 
  New 
  South 
  Wales 
  ; 
  indeed, 
  a 
  very 
  extensive 
  intercourse 
  was 
  

   then 
  and 
  for 
  many 
  years 
  carried 
  on 
  between 
  Port 
  Jackson 
  and 
  New 
  Zea- 
  

   land, 
  partly 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  whale 
  and 
  seal 
  fishery."- 
  4. 
  That 
  on 
  Mr. 
  Mars- 
  

   den's 
  visit 
  (1814) 
  several 
  foreigners 
  were 
  residing 
  in 
  New 
  Zealand 
  ; 
  mention 
  

   is 
  particularly 
  made, 
  among 
  others, 
  of 
  a 
  Tahitian,! 
  and 
  a 
  Hindoo, 
  who 
  

   were 
  dwelling 
  with 
  the 
  Maoris 
  as 
  Maoris, 
  and 
  who 
  had 
  quite 
  made 
  this 
  

   country 
  their 
  home, 
  without 
  a 
  wish 
  to 
  leave 
  it 
  ; 
  Major 
  Cruise 
  also, 
  in 
  

   1819, 
  found 
  a 
  native 
  of 
  the 
  Marquesas 
  | 
  Islands 
  fairly 
  settled 
  among 
  them 
  ; 
  

   and 
  that 
  for 
  many 
  years 
  convicts 
  from 
  the 
  neighbouring 
  penal 
  colonies 
  were 
  

   continually 
  escaping 
  thence 
  to 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  5. 
  That 
  from 
  1820-1840 
  

   young 
  New 
  Zealanders 
  were 
  frequently 
  entering 
  whale-ships 
  and 
  other 
  

   vessels, 
  to 
  serve 
  on 
  cruises 
  in 
  the 
  South 
  Seas, 
  several 
  of 
  whom 
  returned 
  to 
  

   their 
  native 
  country 
  and 
  settled. 
  6. 
  That 
  during 
  several 
  years, 
  after 
  the 
  

   arrival 
  of 
  the 
  missionaries 
  and 
  hefore 
  the 
  formation 
  of 
  the 
  colony, 
  many 
  

   harbours 
  in 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  and 
  the 
  Bay 
  of 
  Islands 
  in 
  particular, 
  were 
  the 
  

   common 
  resort 
  of 
  American, 
  Colonial, 
  and 
  other 
  whalers, 
  whose 
  crews 
  were 
  

   composed 
  of 
  men 
  of 
  many 
  nations 
  and 
  of 
  all 
  colours 
  ; 
  and 
  among 
  them 
  

   were 
  often 
  natives 
  from 
  the 
  East, 
  including 
  China 
  and 
  the 
  South 
  Sea 
  Islands, 
  

   some 
  of 
  whom 
  settled 
  in 
  New 
  Zealand, 
  and 
  no 
  doubt 
  many 
  of 
  them 
  taught 
  

   the 
  New 
  Zealander 
  not 
  a 
  few 
  novel 
  things. 
  7. 
  Two 
  old 
  sayings 
  of 
  the 
  

   Maoris 
  bearing 
  on 
  this 
  subject 
  I 
  would 
  also 
  adduce 
  : 
  — 
  1. 
  Their 
  terse 
  old 
  

   proverb, 
  "He 
  tao 
  rakau 
  ka 
  taea 
  te 
  fare, 
  he 
  tao 
  kilekore 
  e 
  taea"—a 
  wooden 
  

   spear 
  can 
  be 
  parried, 
  || 
  a 
  slanderous 
  word§ 
  cannot 
  be 
  parried. 
  Now, 
  if 
  any 
  

   other 
  more 
  destructive 
  missile 
  were 
  known 
  and 
  in 
  use 
  among 
  them, 
  than 
  

   the 
  common 
  hand-spear, 
  surely 
  such 
  would 
  have 
  been 
  preferred 
  here. 
  2. 
  

   Their 
  saying, 
  on 
  the 
  introduction 
  of 
  fire-arms, 
  and 
  for 
  a 
  long 
  time 
  after, 
  

   that 
  the 
  only 
  thing 
  they 
  disliked 
  them 
  for 
  was, 
  that 
  by 
  them 
  the 
  warrior 
  

   fell 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  slave 
  at 
  a 
  distance, 
  1i 
  before 
  that 
  the 
  hand-to-hand 
  fight 
  

   begun 
  : 
  ** 
  another 
  pro(rf 
  that 
  deadly 
  missiles 
  acting 
  at 
  a 
  distance 
  were 
  not 
  

   known. 
  (8) 
  Further, 
  in 
  all 
  their 
  very 
  many 
  proverbs 
  and 
  sayings 
  there 
  is 
  

   no 
  allusion 
  to 
  any 
  such 
  thing. 
  

  

  My 
  own 
  opinion 
  has 
  long 
  been, 
  that 
  the 
  old 
  New 
  Zealanders 
  (ever 
  quick 
  

   and 
  able 
  imitators, 
  especially 
  in 
  any 
  matter 
  connected 
  with 
  warfare), 
  having 
  

   early 
  had 
  lessons 
  from 
  the 
  Tahitian, 
  Tupaea 
  (whom 
  they 
  all 
  but 
  adored) 
  

   and 
  his 
  son, 
  Taiota, 
  and 
  also 
  on 
  Cook's 
  second 
  voyage 
  from 
  Tahiti 
  to 
  

   New 
  Zealand, 
  from 
  Mahine, 
  the 
  native 
  of 
  Porapora, 
  in 
  the 
  arts 
  of 
  

   fashioning 
  and 
  using 
  projectiles, 
  perhaps 
  endeavoured 
  to 
  adopt 
  them, 
  and 
  

  

  * 
  See 
  appendix 
  B. 
  t 
  Nicholas' 
  "New 
  Zealand," 
  Vol. 
  I., 
  p. 
  92. 
  

  

  J 
  Cruise's 
  Journal, 
  p. 
  198. 
  || 
  Lit., 
  a 
  spoken 
  spear. 
  

  

  § 
  See 
  appendix, 
  note 
  B, 
  for 
  an 
  illustration. 
  IT 
  Lit., 
  died 
  like 
  a 
  nobody 
  — 
  a 
  fool. 
  

   ** 
  The 
  chiefs 
  and 
  the 
  principal 
  men 
  urged 
  onward 
  the 
  rush 
  of 
  the 
  vanguard, 
  but 
  were 
  

   jiot 
  in 
  it 
  ; 
  they 
  followed. 
  

  

  