4m ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XVII. 
should he behave well, but assuring him that we were 
fully prepared and determined to resist any attack on 
our houses and goods on the sea-side. He answered, 
that he had seen White people in his part of the 
country too ; and that he knew what great advantages 
he should lose by quarrelling with them : for instance, 
he said, he should not get tobacco, as he had just now, 
blankets, or powder, or any of those things which the 
Maori got by letting the White man live quietly 
among them. He assured me that no harm was in- 
tended to the White man, and that all his party were 
bound on no other purpose than revenge for their 
tupapaku, or " dead :" and I told him that I thought 
he was quite right ; for he forced me to acknowledge 
that the White people of my country would do the 
same, should the fViwi, or French, kill any of our 
chiefs. I felt now convinced that there was nothing 
to fear ; although the missionaries persisted in assur- 
ing me that there was no' trusting these natives, and 
that they knew no such feeling as gratitude, and had 
the worst reputation of any natives in the islands. 
We remained two or three days in our encampment 
opposite to theirs, frequent visits being paid on both 
sides. During this time the old chief showed the most 
violent feeling of enmity towards the doctrine of the 
missionaries. Wlienever he heard their followers 
sing one of their discordant hymns on our side, he 
would come out of his hut and muster one or two 
hundred to drown the sound by a native song. When 
they visited his camp, he pursued the same plan to 
drown their exhortations, though he treated them in 
other respects with dignified politeness. 
I visited the pa at Pukihika, about six miles above 
the encampment. A young slave, Mr. Matthews's 
head teacher, poled me up in a light canoe. He was 
