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with Mr. Williams's instructions, they had built houses 
and chapels in readiness for his arrival. They then 
discussed the merits of the missionary labours. They 
acknowledged that they would be heartily glad to 
renounce war and cannibalism, but deprecated the 
incessant praying and singing, which the younger chief 
especially objected to, as taking the people from their 
industrious avocations, and substituting a monotonous 
repetition, which lasted all day and night, for activity 
in cultivating their potato-grounds or hollowing out 
canoes. " We want," said they, " to live in peace, and 
" to have white people come amongst us. We are 
" growing old, and want our children to have pro- 
" tectors in people from Europe. We do not want the 
" missionaries from the Bay of Islands : they are pakeha 
" maori, or ' whites who have become natives,' We 
" have long heard of ships from Europe. Here is 
" one at length ; and we will sell our harbour and 
" land, and live with the white people when they come 
" to us." 
Kpuni also asked us to explain what the missionaries 
meant by saying, " that all the white men not mission- 
" aries were devils." 
September 21st. — In the morning the two chiefs 
renewed the conversation about the land ; and told 
Colonel Wakefield to go and look at the land, and see 
how he liked it. They did not wish to talk any more 
about it until this had been done ; and TVarepon said 
he should go and finish a large canoe which he was 
working at, and that in two or three days he should 
have done, and my uncle would know whether the 
land was good. A chief named Amahau was appointed 
to take him up the river which flows through the 
valley of which I have spoken ; and they started, with 
Barrett and some natives, in a small canoe. 
