126 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. V. 
Tungia, who was the father of Tommy Evans's native 
wife, and nicknamed " the Wild Fellow " by the 
whalers, was remarkable for his noisy and turbulent 
manner. All the others, except Hiko and his uncle 
Rangihiroa, had the same bad qualities which we had 
observed in the Cloudy Bay natives. They united the 
uncontrolled ferocity of the savage to the acquired 
indifference to honour and the degrading vices of the 
White outcasts among whom they had dwelt. 
Hiko struck us forcibly by his commanding stature, 
by his noble intelligent physiognomy, and by his truly 
chieftain-like demeanour. His descent by both parents 
pointed him out as a great leader in Cook's Strait, 
should he inherit his father's great qualities. He was 
sparing of his words, and mild of speech. He had 
carefully treasured up his father's instructions, and the 
relics of his voyage to England. He showed us a 
volume of the Library of Entertaining Knowledge on 
the New Zealanders, in which is contained a portrait 
of Te Pehi, on which he placed great store. He was 
said to pay his slaves for their work, and to treat them 
with unusual kindness, and the White men spoke of 
him as mild and inoflPensive in his intercourse with 
them. 
Rangihiroa, the younger brother of Pehi, was also a 
worthy old chieftain. He was free from the vices of 
the other Kawia chiefs, and was universally well 
spoken of as kind-hearted to all his fellow-creatures of 
both races by even the most depraved of the White 
men. He seemed shy of putting himself forward in 
the discussion, but approved of the proposed transac- 
tion in a mild and firm speech, made for himself and 
for his nephew, who had not yet ventured to rely on 
his eloquence in the conclave of chiefs. 
A gale from south-east detained the natives on shore 
