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acting wrong, than this — that both Natives and 
Europeans are anxious to conceal from our Mis- 
sionaries the iniquities which they are practising. 
Till the formation of the Waimate Settlement, 
the Missionaries had been hovering, as it were, 
on the skirts of the country; and, with all the 
efforts that had previously been made, no perma- 
nent footing had been obtained beyond those out- 
posts. We had long been watching the workings 
of the native mind ; and looking for the openings 
of Providence, for the preaching of the Gospel of 
Jesus Christ. We felt assured that no great work 
would be accomplished, till we could establish a 
Mission Station in the interior of the island, and 
in the midst of its cultivable and populous dis- 
tricts. From the Kerikeri, the Missionaries had 
to travel many miles, before they arrived at any 
native village ; or before they could have an 
opportunity of declaring the truths of our holy 
religion to any but a few straggling parties, who 
might call at the settlement on their way to the 
Bay, or whom they might meet on their road to 
the native villages. The Kerikeri, in this view, 
is an important Station ; because it is a general 
thoroughfare, from all parts, to the coast: and 
thus we frequently come in contact there with 
natives whom otherwise we should, probably, 
very seldom, or never, see. Nor has the forma- 
tion of the inland Station superseded the use of 
the Kerikeri in this respect ; as those natives 
