Chap. VI. LIEUTENANT MACDONNELL ' H^ 
rable outward appearance. They were wretchedly 
clothed, covered with dirt, badly supplied with food, 
generally speaking weak and sickly-looking, and alto- 
gether more abject in their manners and miserable in 
their condition than the slaves at the Ohiere; who, 
however poor and degraded, had at least some lightness 
of heart and physical energy. The missionary natives 
showed no curiosity as to us, and hardly turned their 
heads to answer a question ; they seemed to have lost 
all the MaorVs natural vivacity and inquisitiveness, and 
to be a generation whose feelings and natures were 
blunted. 
In a word, they appeared tamed without being civi- 
lized. Together with the ferocity they had lost the 
energy of the savage, without acquiring either the 
activity or the intelligence of a civilized man. 
They performed, however, their part of the religious 
ceremonies on Sunday with great order and decorum ; 
joining universally in the responses and hymns, and 
listening with marked attention to the sermon which 
followed. 
On the Monday they again disappeared ; having 
excited no feeling in my mind but that of sincere pity 
for their degraded physical state. 
About two miles above Mangungu, we found the es- 
tablishment of Lieutenant Macdonnell, who had been 
some years in this country, and who had sold his 
claims to certain districts of land here and at Kaipara 
to the Company. We had left him in England, but 
had brought with us his deeds for the lands in ques- 
tion, and letters to his agent, Mr. Mariner. A brig 
was loading kauri spars at the river-side. A nice 
wooden house, belonging to Lieutenant Macdonnell, 
stood on a terrace about fifty yards back from the 
river. Mr. Mariner had a comfortable cottage on the 
