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the Bay have been living on terms of the strictest 
amity. 
At Kororareka, in March 1830 , a destructive 
fight arose ; to which the natives were instigated 
by the master of a whaling-ship at anchor in the 
Bay. Again and again have the chiefs declared, 
that the Europeans alone are answerable for all 
the blood which was then shed ; and for all which 
shall be hereafter shed, in seeking satisfaction for 
the injuries both parties sustained on that occa- 
sion. Again and again, in their public meetings, 
have they declared, that they should never have 
fought as they did, if they had not been maddened 
to it by the taunting language of a European. 
“ Do not wonder,"’ I have heard them say, in the 
middle of a speech, do not be surprised, you 
white people who now hear us, if at some future 
time wb slay you or yours, for what your people 
have done for us, for our fathers, and our bro- 
thers and our friends, whose blood the sands of 
Kororareka absorbed ; and whose lives were, by 
the instrumentality, or on account of one of you, 
taken away. Do not wonder — do not wonder ! 
it will be just and right to have blood for blood.” 
The firing in the battle at Kororareka, in which 
nearly one hundred lay killed or wounded on the 
beach, drew the Missionaries over from Paihia. 
They exposed themselves to danger on every side ; 
and at length succeeded in procuring a cessation 
of hostilities ; and, in a few days, with the assist- 
ance of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, who at that 
