Chap. III. SUMMER LIFE— JEALOUSIES. 4^ 
The more industrious of these, during the summer, 
procure supplies of pigs and potatoes from the natives, 
and make large profits by disposing of them again to 
the whale-ships which look in at the different harbours 
previous to going out on the whaling-grounds, or re- 
turning home full. The less active spend the summer 
at the villages of their native women, either cultivating 
a patch of ground which the natives have tacitly al- 
lowed them to take possession of, or depending entirely 
on their native connexions for fish and potatoes, and 
drinking out the extent of their credit with the agent 
in the strongest and most poisonous liquors. 
Much rivalry is of course engendered by the nature 
of the whaler's occupation ; and we observed that the 
jealousy of the native tribes, fostered by the women 
who cohabited with the white men, often produced 
the most rancorous feelings between rival parties. Those 
living in Cloudy Bay with the Kawia, and those living 
in the Sound with the Ngatiawa, were in the con- 
stant habit of disparaging each other and each other's 
natives ; and seemed to have imbibed a good deal of 
the savage enmity existing between the two tribes. 
In each place separate bays were the abodes of vary- 
ing interests, and even on the same beach indivi- 
duals seemed disunited and in constant feud with each 
other, though we should have imagined that they 
ought to have been united by their common danger, 
or at any rate by their love of gain. Fierce quarrels 
and wild orgies were to be met with both day and 
night ; and never, perhaps, was there a community 
composed of such dangerous materials and so devoid 
of regular law. 
The law of the strong in mind and body was, how- 
ever, in force. Some few men of iron will and large 
limb ruled to a considerable degree the lawless assem« 
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