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in a case of adultery which had taken place on the 
main. 
:^ The conduct of the native teachers caused great in- 
dignation in my mind. I began to believe that this 
continued opposition to our proceedings really origi- 
nated from the White missionaries ; and being now 
able to make myself understood pretty well, told the 
natives my candid opinion of the unchristian tendency 
of these underhand proceedings. But I took care to 
tell them that the rangatira, or "chief" missionaries, 
would come out with the settlers, and behave veiy 
differently from those who incited them against us. 
I also explained to them, that many of these bad 
missionaries were shoemakers or tailors, who received 
money from people in England to preach the Gospel 
to them, but not to make them enemies to White 
people ; and that the clergymen who were to accom- 
pany the settlers would preach to them and the White 
people together in one church. 
It was here, too, that I was first struck with the 
absurdity of maintaining the native language, and the 
extent to which this was done by the missionaries. 
Some of the latter, on their recent visits, had baptized 
and christened most of the children, and many of the 
grown people. They gave them English names; 
but, instead of spelling these names in English and 
teaching the natives so to spell, write, and pronounce 
them, they taught them to pronounce them in Maori 
in the way nearest approaching to the actual sounds ; 
and then commemorated this adaptation by a printed 
card, on which the transmogrified name appeared, with 
the date of baptism. Thus " Caroline " was printed 
" Kararaina ;" " Edward," '* Eruera T " Charlotte," 
« Harata ;" " Judith," '' Urihi ;" " Solomon," "Horo- 
mona ;" " Paul," " Paora." This seemed indeed an 
advance in order to retrograde : it would surely have 
