Chap. XI. BARBAROUS MUTUAL INTERCOURSE. 
innocent persons, both native and European, were sacri- 
ficed to the feelings excited by former oppression and 
murders. It was during some part of the period be- 
tween this date and 1 807, that George Bruce, an Eng- 
lish sailor, accompanied a chief named Te Pehi ashore, 
in the north of the islands, married his daughter, and 
became, under the chief's protection, a tatued chief- 
tain himself. It appears that this was the earliest time 
at which a European ever resided in New Zealand. 
Bruce exercised a very beneficial influence over his con- 
nexions, improving the nature of the intercourse, which 
continued unabated between the shipping and the na- 
tives. But he was at last treated as a native by some 
unprincipled skipper, who decoyed him and his wife on 
board ship, landed him at JNIalacca, and sold her to an- 
other captain at Penang. 
Between that period and 1814, we can hear of no 
European having lived on shore. The scenes of bar- 
barism continued to be acted between the savages of 
both races. They had reached such a pitch in that year, 
the " massacre of the Boyd" and other similar scenes 
having attracted general attention, that the Governor 
of New South Wales issued a proclamation which 
denounced them as notorious on the occasion of the 
benevolent expedition headed by Mr. Marsden to found 
the missionary establishment at the Bay of Islands. 
From the language of this paper, it seems probable 
that some few sailors or runaway convicts had even 
ventured to reside among the natives ; and this view is 
confirmed by the fact, that two runaway convicts, de- 
sj)ised and half-starved by the natives, because idle and 
arrogant, gave themselves up to Mr. Marsden, in order 
to return to the penal colony.* 
* ' Narrative of a Voyage to New Zealand performed in the 
years 1814 and 1815, in company with the Hev. Samuel Marsden, 
