M ADVENTUEE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap, II. 
many of them having taken notice of our observance 
of the Sunday, and some having attended our service 
on that day. They now, however, said we were half- 
missionary, half-soldier. A native missionary teacher, 
named William, assembled the natives who were on 
board to prayers several evenings. Te TVetu always 
sat apart when this took place. No further attempts 
at extortion were made ; and Te Wetu told a canoe-full 
of his people, who attempted to come on board one 
morning, that they were not wanted, and that he was 
very comfortable where he was. 
On the 28th, my uncle sent Doddrey the store- 
keeper, with a native guide, to a village at the south- 
ern entrance of Queen Charlotte's Sound, which Nayti 
and also the resident natives described as containing a 
hundred White men, with three rangatira^ or "chiefs." 
In the afternoon of the following day, he returned in 
a whale-boat with two Englishmen. One was named 
Williams, and was carpenter at the village in question, 
where he said there were about sixty Europeans or 
Americans living by whaling. The other was named 
Arthur, and owned the meeting-house in Anaho vil- 
lage. Both brought their native wives with them. 
That of Arthur belongs to the village, and he gene- 
rally lives there in the summer. It was now, however, 
the season for whaling, in which pursuit we learnt that 
he was engaged ; and he was in consequence living at 
Te-awa-iti, whence the boat came. 
The crew of the whale-boat consisted of young na- 
tive men, dressed in the costume of European seamen ; 
and we heard that a great many of them are employed 
in the boats by the whalers. 
The arrival of our countrymen produced a great 
change in the deportment of the natives. They now 
cringed to our new guests, who took but little notice 
