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remonstrated with for interfering with land which had 
been already bought, and had been fixed upon as the 
site of a town, Mr. Williams had declared that " he 
" did not care for the Company, which had treated 
** him with great want of courtesy in not informing 
"him of their views in this country." 
The history of his native agent, Richard Davis, or 
Reikana, had not been one to excite faith in his sin- 
cere adherence to the Christian religion. We collected 
from Mr. Bumby at Hokianga, as well as from several 
natives who had visited the north, that Davis had been 
originally carried as a slave to the Bay of Islands, and 
while there, had become one of the early converts of 
the Church mission. He had been emancipated by 
his master, and eagerly looked for an opportunity of 
returning among his own tribe, with a wife to whom 
he had been married according to the forms of our 
religion, and two or three children. About the time 
that Messrs. Bumby and Hobbs of the Wesleyan mis- 
sion were preparing for their expedition to Cook's 
Strait, Davis suddenly became a vehement Wesleyan, 
and applied to Mr. Bumby for a passage in the schooner 
to Port Nicholson ; agreeing to exert his influence 
among his relations there to procure proselytes and a 
pied-d'terre for the Wesleyan mission. It must be 
remarked, that just about this time a disagreement 
had arisen between the two missionary societies as to 
the limits of their respective labours. An understand- 
ing had been come to in England, that the Church 
missionaries should extend along the eastern, and the 
Wesleyans along the western side of the northern 
island. But the missionaries in New Zealand could 
not agree as to the point where east ended and west 
began ; and so the Church claimed the right of con- 
