Chap. V. RAUPERAHA REPUDIATES HIS BARGAIN. 143 
faced way, that he should sell some land to the vessel 
from Port Jackson, as he wanted more guns, and had 
only sold us Taitapu and • Rangitoto ; that is. Blind 
Bay and D'Urville's Island ! 
Colonel Wakefield reproached him instantly, and in 
the strongest terms, with his falsehood and duplicity ; 
making Brooks, the interpreter, repeat to him several 
times that he had behaved as a liar and a slave, instead 
of a great chief. Rauperaha maintained, however, an 
imperturbable silence, giving no answer to this severe 
attack, or to the reproaches which all the cabin-party 
addressed to him. He demanded and drank another 
glass of grog, and then got into his canoe, which 
pulled for Kapiti. 
We were of course much hurt by this rapid repudia- 
tion of his bargain ; and, though we depended entirely 
upon the perfect justice and openness of the agreement 
which we had made with him, before so many wit- 
nesses and in such explicit terms, for our justifica- 
tion before the world, we foresaw some obstacles 
already arrayed against the peaceful settlement of the 
Strait during the life of this deceitful old savage. It 
seemed natural to suppose, however, that, whether 
obliged to govern and protect ourselves, or acknow- 
ledged and fostered, as we hoped, by the British 
Government, we should always possess a force able to 
protect the plantations against any of his evil designs, 
and to maintain the execution of any just bargain^ 
whether or not he should be inclined to abide by it at 
a future period. 
