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and against the honourable fulfihnent of their bargain ; 
and they had also become aware that unity did not 
prevail among the White j:eople. 
About this time, the natives at Te Aropa, where the 
Wesleyan native teachers resided, and at Pipitea, where 
Richard Davis and Robert Tod lived, showed a decided 
inclination to repudiate the sale. It was observed that 
these natives particularly attached themselves to the Go- 
vernment officers, whom they had soon discovered to be 
in some degree opposed to our feelings and proceedings. 
They became more distant in their intercourse with us, 
and apparently very wary in their conversation. Tf Unre- 
port, Epuni, and the other head chiefs, ridiculed these 
pretensions on the part of a few inferior chiefs and slave 
tribes, and told us not to regard them as of importance. 
They seemed, nevertheless, rather hurt at the greater 
distinction shown by " the men of the Queen," as they 
called the officials, to the lesser and uninfluential 
people of Pipitea and the other settlements near 
Thorndon. On returning to Pitone from I'horndon 
one day, I found Tf'^arepori in exceeding bad humour, 
haranguing a mixed audience of Whites and natives. 
He attacked me on my arrival, reproaching me and 
Wide-awake with the ftict that he was not treated 
with the consideration due to his rank and name. He 
drew two diagrams with charcoal on a billet of fire- 
wood, and said, " Look ! it ought to be, Warepori, 
" the Queen, the Governor ; but it is the Queen, the 
"Governor, Tf^arepori. This is bad." I explained 
to him that this was no fault of his old friends ; and 
that he had assented to this arrangement when he 
signed the paper and got a blanket from Williams. 
He answered with much violence, that he had not been 
made to know of any such thing when he signed it, — 
and then went sullenly into his hut. 
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