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received Europeans with kindness, and indeed they have in- 
variably done so, never, except in one single case, having 
injured any who landed on their shores. It was by those 
further south, at Wangaroa and the Bay of Islands, that 
they were ill-treated. When Toki and Huru returned, the 
natives flocked around them, and were anxious to learn how 
the Europeans had behaved to them, and on hearing of the 
uniform kindness they had received, it made such an impres- 
sion in favor of Englishmen as never to be erased from their 
memory. 
The natives of the north, above Kaitaia, state, that the 
first wheat which was sowed in the island was by Governor 
King, at Kapo Wairua, where he landed. 
In all languages, some words may be found which resemble 
those in another ; this, of course, is the case with those 
tongues which have derived much either from neighbour- 
ing countries, or in common with them, from some more 
ancient one, as is seen in most European languages ; but 
when this resemblance or identity of words exists in such 
a remote and isolated race as the Maori, and that, too, 
with European tongues, then it can only be accounted for by 
supposing that there is a natural tendency in the human 
race to adopt the same symbols, a natural unity of thought, 
arising from causes common to all ; for example, when poultry 
were first introduced into New Zealand, they immediately 
gave the cock a name from its crow, ti kao kao , as our 
ancestors also have done : one people deriving its name 
from the crow, the other from its cluck ; so with the duck, 
which is most likely derived from its quack ; the natives 
adopting the same sound to the idiom of their language, call 
it rake rake , which is nothing more than quack quack. 
In fact, all the birds of New Zealand are named from their 
notes, and this seems quite natural ; when our settlers first 
reached New Zealand, they fancied that the cry of the owl 
resembled the words more pork, and more pork they call 
it; the natives of the north fancy its note resembles the 
word kou-kou , and that is its name there : in the south, they 
