iS't PACIFICATION OF WARLIKE TRIBES 
“ Considerable agitation of feeling was mani- 
fested among all the natives in tlie northern part 
of the island, at Hokianga, and even to the North 
Cape, in consequence of a party of natives having 
been cut off in the neighbourhood of Tauranga, 
who had left the Bay of Islands for the purpose 
of seeking satisfaction for the death of Hongi, and 
their other relatives, who had fallen in the battle 
at Kororareka. It was consequently determined 
by tliem, tliat, in the summer, all the natives 
sliould proceed to Tauranga ; and, as many of the 
cliiefs expressed great reluctance to fight, inas- 
much as tlieir relatives were the aggressors, the 
Missionaries were sanguine in the expectation 
that peace might be established between the two 
parties. On the ISth of October 1831, the Rev. 
Henry Williams, and Mr. T. Chapman, sailed in 
tlie ‘ Karere’, for the purpose of visiting the na- 
tives at Tauranga and Rotorua, with an especial 
reference to the threatened expedition. The re- 
ception they met with was kind, and highly gra- 
tifying. In January, the expedition left the Bay; 
and as a desire had been expressed by the chiefs, 
that some of the Missionaries should accompany 
them, it was determined that the Rev. Henry Wil- 
liams, Mr. J. Kemp, and Mr. W. Fairburn, should 
proceed with them, in the schooner * Active’. It 
was many weeks before the flotilla entered Tau- 
ranga; when it was immediately seen that the 
Ngapuhi were bent on fighting. The Missionaries 
remained a few days in the harbour ; but finding 
