Chap. XL WHALERS— NATIVE WARS. dl« 
blishments for that purpose in the neighbourhood of 
Queen Charlotte's Sound, Kapiti, and Cloudy Bay. 
The two latter places were for many years great 
rendezvous for whaling-ships, and some of their crews 
also formed stations on the land. 
At this period the native wars were raging in all their 
fury. Rauperaha had not yet succeeded in totally expel- 
ling " Bloody Jack " and the Nf^ahitau tribe from their 
original dwelling-place, and the European proteges, for 
they were at first no more, had to share in the hardships 
and losses of the invading tribe with whom they had fra- 
ternized. More than once their dwellings were burnt 
and their little all plundered, in a successful foray of 
the expelled inhabitants. I have already spoken of 
Fighting Bay, where a naval engagement took place 
between the canoes of the hostile tribes, from which 
Rauperaha barely escaped with his life. 
The White men, however, increased in number, 
while they rebuilt their establishments, and by com- 
munication with Sydney acquired property, by which 
they became the protectors of the natives. The 
Ngatiawa tribes, too, in their migration from Ta- 
ranaki, when expelled by the TVaikato, had formed 
populous settlements in the immediate neighbour- 
hood. The Ngahitau no longer dared come from 
the south when their invaders were well supplied 
with fire-arms and ammunition, and reinforced by the 
whalers' good boats, well manned and equipped, and 
additional native allies. The sharp lances and har- 
poons could serve as arms in case of necessity, and the 
light whale-boat was a formidable opponent to the 
unwieldy canoe. 
During the early times, too, of these establishments, 
their communication with Sydney had been very pre 
carious, and they were for a long while unprovided 
