TE RAUPARAHA AND RAN GIHAEATA . 
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at his departure, and from that time to his death, he quietly 
resided amongst his people, and invariably might be seen at 
the daily service, morning and evening, dressed in a captain’s 
naval uniform. He seemed to view the rapid advance of his 
tribe in the arts of civilization with the greatest satisfaction, 
as well as the progress of the children in the schools. 
In November, 1849, the old Chief expired at Otaki, he 
was not baptized, and although his son wished the burial 
service of the Church to be used at his funeral, the minister 
did not feel himself justified in doing so ; however, a lay 
member of the Church Missionary Society from Wanganui 
opportunely passing through the place, read the service over 
him ; and thus terminated the eventful life of this New 
Zealand warrior. 
In stature, he was not above five feet six inches ; but his 
countenance was striking;* he had a Homan, or hooked , 
nose, an eagle glance, which read the thoughts of others 
without revealing his own, and a look which clearly marked 
his dauntless bearing, it seemed impossible to take him by 
surprise, his being long accustomed to command, gave him 
a dignified demeanour, and his fertility in expedients, a 
cunning, or rather shrewd cast of countenance ; even when 
clad in a blanket, few could look at him without being im- 
pressed with a feeling that he was no ordinary person. 
The character of this Chief has been variously drawn. 
The settlers in general viewed him as everything bad, most 
treacherous, and deceitful, but this opinion was not founded 
on their personal acquaintance with him, so much as from 
report ; the whalers and traders, who had the best oppor- 
tunity of being intimately acquainted with him, and that, 
too, at a time when his power to injure was the greatest, in- 
variably spoke of him as having ever been the white man’s 
friend ; he always placed the best he had before them, and 
in no instance have I heard of his doing any one of them an 
injury ; speaking of him to an old whaler, he said most em- 
phatically, that he never let the white man who needed , want 
* It is remarkable, that most great conquerors were small men ; — Alexan- 
der, Caesar, Napoleon, Wellington, &c. ; and the eye and nose alike in all. 
