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WARIPOAKA — LA FAVOHITE. 



Dec. 



well as very strong. But there are opposing feelings, each 

 powerful, in the same individuals ; and upon education, habit, 

 and the accidents of moments, depend their development and 

 the ascendancy which either may obtain. 



On the following day (29th), Waripoaka visited the Beagle ; 

 he was accompanied by a mixed assemblage of men, women, 

 children, pigs, dogs, and fowls, all in one large canoe. His own 

 appearance, a spare figure and tattowed face, ill-dressed in a 

 shabby old suit of European clothes ; and the disorderly group 

 in his train, formed an unfavourable outward contrast to the 

 warlike array of a heathen New Zealand chief. Waripoaka 

 seemed to be very intelligent and unassuming ; perhaps his 

 manner to white men was too humble. It did not agree with 

 pre-conceived ideas of an independent, haughty New Zea- 

 lander, to see bows and awkward grimaces (intended for good 

 manners) made by a man whose eye and aspect at once pre- 

 cluded the idea of any approach to refined habits. 



During our stay at New Zealand we heard much of the 

 zealous activity of the officers of ' La Favorite' — a French 

 surveying ship — which had lately visited, and made a minute 

 plan of the Bay of Islands. They must have examined every 

 corner and ascended every hill, by the accounts we received ; 

 but neither natives nor English settlers seemed able to compre- 

 hend the principle which animated Captain La Place and the 

 officers of La Favorite to take so much trouble in a foreign 

 country for no good to themselves alone. I was able to ex- 

 plain this to some of them by instancing my own occupation 

 on the shores of South America, and showing that nations acted 

 upon grander principles than individuals. I was told that 

 M. La Place had likewise examined, with much care, a consi- 

 derable extent of the eastern sea-coasts of the northern larg-e 

 island (Eaheinomawe, or Yahinomaui). 



The term Rangatira, Rangateeda, or Rangatida, has spread 

 among all classes, excepting only the slaves, who are prisoners 

 taken in war or their descendants, Every free Zealander now 

 styles himself rangatira. 



At Otaheite there is a very limited number of raatiras, as 



