104 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. IV. 
We trusted, however, that these bitter feelings would 
not be continued long in the colony ; and that no con- 
troversy or partisanship would be allowed to over-rule 
the conviction of our benevolent intentions which we 
felt sure of impressing on the Christian missionaries in 
New Zealand. We felt sure that their interest in the 
cause of religion, and their appreciation of a body of 
respectable settlers as co-operators and supporters in 
their work, combined with a knowledge of the ways in 
which example affected change in the native mind, 
would soon outweigh the opinion prejudicial to the 
colonists which they might have imbibed from their 
correspondents at home. 
In the meanwhile, the slave teachers were not likely 
to exercise much influence over the disposition of the 
great body of natives towards us ; and we hoped that 
the White missionaries, when they did arrive, would 
come as friends and brethren in the great work. 
Colonel Wakefield left with TVarepor'i Mr. Smith, 
whom I mentioned above, with a stock of garden-seeds 
and carpenter's tools, and a few goods with which to 
encourage the natives in the work of preparation for 
the arrival of the settlers. JVarepori promised to put 
him in a new house at his own settlement, and to take 
care of him till our return. We also landed some pigs 
of a superior breed before we sailed. Some boards 
bearing the words "New Zealand Land Company" 
were put up in conspicuous places on the shores of the 
harbour. 
