THE LOVE OF PEACE. 
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points of our spears — to draw the bullets from 
our muskets — and to make this tribe and that 
tribe, this tribe and that tribe, love one another, 
and sit as brothers and friends. Then,"’ he added, 
let us give our hearts to listening, and we shall 
dwell in peace.” — I really thought this was a very 
correct idea of the effect, which the Gospel of 
peace is likely to produce among this people.^* 
In order both to cultivate, and to draw out, the 
feelings of those among whom I was labouring, 
it appeared to be one very useful plan to induce 
• An illustration of the vagrant curiosity and thievish dis- 
position of some of the New Zealanders is here subjoined, ex- 
tracted from my J ournal of May 13th and 1 4th, 1833 : — Rewa, 
and several chiefs, came this morning to pay us a visit, and 
to wonder, as they expressed it, at the buildings which have 
been erected, and at the progress which has been made in the 
New Settlement at the Waimate. They were all very parti- 
cular in their inquiries, and wished to know how it was that 
80 much more work was done by Missionaries, and by natives 
living with them, than by natives living at their own resi- 
dences ? I told them, that white people work with their 
hands, and that New Zealanders only work with their mouth 
They assented to the truth of this ; but left us, wondering 
how it was. 
The next day, I went to visit the chiefs who came to see us 
yesterday. Fell in with a party of the tribe Wakatohea, a sad 
wicked set from the southward, who are come to place them- 
selves under the protection of Rewa and his brothers : they 
are perfect strangers to these parts, and are very thievish. 
While I was talking to them, they cut away part of my bridle; 
and when I accused them, they instantly, but unblushingly, 
restored it. The same people, a short time ago, picked the 
nails out of the camp forge-bellows ; and when we searched 
for them, these fellows could not speak : the reason of it was, 
that the nails were concealed in their mouths. 
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