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JACKSONS STORY. 
Andrew Powers lived many years at Wanganui ; he was 
a fine hale old man, upwards of seventy. This account he 
gave me in September, 1850. 
There is still another story connected with the same indi- 
vidual, which is illustrative of the change which the Gospel 
has produced in New Zealand, in the treatment the same 
individual experienced at two different periods with an in- 
terval of about twenty years between. In fact, in Andrew 
Powers* story we have two epochs clearly defined, that of 
heathenism and of Christianity. 
Returning from Wellington along the sea shore he was 
taken ill and laid down on a sandhill, unable to proceed any 
further, a native who was travelling that way saw him, and 
went on to Otaki, where he told the people that he had seen 
a 'pakeha (European) laid on the shore very ill; and what 
did you do to him, said Tamihana, the . son of Te Rauparaha 
the Chief? — nothing at all; I was afraid if he died the Euro- 
peans would say I had killed him ; well, then, said Tami- 
hana, you are like the man in the parable, who went on the 
other side of the way ; he then went, saddled his horses, and 
he and his wife rode off to see the poor man, they found 
him very ill, and gave him some refreshment which they had 
brought with them ; they then got bearers, and had him 
carried to their house, where he stayed many days, until he 
was quite well. The poor old man, when he related this 
story, said, they may say what they like, but, whether a 
Maori or not, Tamihana te Rauparaha is a gentleman. 
Jackson's Story. 
The following story, though not strictly relating to New 
Zealand, describes the curious religious customs of an is- 
land further to the north, and is interesting. A man named 
Jackson, who was out whaling in the Cape packet, related 
the following story of an adventure which befel him at 
Alatana, one of the new Hebrides. A boat's crew was sent 
on shore to cut firewood, he was one of the party, but 
