TAMIHANA TARAPIPI, CHIEF OF MATAMATA, A TRUE PATRIOT. 
CHAPTER XXX. 
HONGI. 
One of the most celebrated of the New Zealand Chiefs, who 
has lived since we became acquainted with the country, was 
Hongi, a principal man of the Nga-puhi tribe. Mr. Marsden 
met with him during his first visit to the Bay of Islands, in 
1814; he described him then as a warrior, but of a very 
mild disposition, and with little appearance of the savage 
about him, he was the chief of seventeen places, but chiefly 
resided at the Keri Keri, of an ingenicfhs turn of mind, and 
extremely anxious to learn European arts ; at Mr. Marsden’s 
request, he made a bust of himself, his only instrument being 
a piece of an old iron hoop ; on this he delineated his own 
