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generosity and highmindedness were related : to-day little is heard 
of such instances. The younger generation, — “the young Maori 
School,” — cares for hardly any thing hut the money of the Pa- 
keha. One example may serve for many. A settler wished to he 
rowed across the Waikato river. The natives demanded for this 
trifling service not less than £ 5. After lengthy and tedious nego- 
tiations he succeeded in reducing their demands to 15 shillings. 
He, however, reported the case to Auckland, and the Government 
felt induced to take measures against such extortions. On his 
return, the same gentleman offered the natives 7 '/a shillings to ho 
carried across. In the middle of the river, however, the canoe 
capsized in consequence of an intentional motion of one of the 
natives, and the settler, who with the heavy bundle on his back 
could not swim ashore, was compelled to cling to the canoe and 
beg for help. “Why did you write to Auckland?” asked the na- 
tives. “Because I had a right to do so, anxl because I felt in- 
sulted at your extravagant charge,” was the reply. “Well then,” 
said the Maoris, “you will recollect, that we asked only 7 72 shillings 
to carry you across; if’ now we are to help you, and keep you 
from drowning, you have to pay another 7‘1'i shillings.” And in this 
manner they made again their 15 shillings. 
Numbers of the saddest proofs of the deterioration of the man- 
ners and the character of the natives in their intercourse with Eu- 
ropeans , are furnished in the cities by the class of “town Maoris.” 
Too proud or too lazy to engage their services to Europeans, and 
by regular work to earn an honest living, they loaf and lounge 
about the streets and taverns , — morally and physically bankrupt, 
a loathsome burden to the Europeans, and an abomination to their 
own countrymen. 
Thus despite the many advantages it has brought to the na- 
tives, the European civilization and colonization acts upon them 
after all like an insidious poison, consuming the inmost marrow of 
their life ; like a poison which not only whalers and sandal-wood 
traders import in the shape of plagues and cutaneous diseases, but 
which every European brings with him. The naivity of manners 
