346 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XIV. 
But Pakeke, who had become acquainted with a kind 
farmer's family at New Plymouth, two meml)ers of 
which were intended to superintend the native labour- 
ers as soon as permission should be obtained to cut the 
road, at once gave the plan his cordial support, and en- 
gaged that his own especial followers should do the 
work. And he appointed TVaingongoro as the place 
of egress on the coast, as his out-cultivations were on 
the edge of the wood, near the valley of that river. 
Upon this, the missionary raised such a hornet's nest 
about his ears, that though he had formerly lived in 
TVaimate pa, and had been one of the most zealous 
attendants on Mr. Skeffington's religious instruction, 
he removed his own family, and retinue to a new village 
which he built at the mouth of the river where the 
road was to emerge, and suddenly but resolutely ab- 
jured his sectarian faith and called himself a Church- 
of-England man. His following all did the same ; and 
the most revolting religious feud was going on between 
near relations in the two septs of this tribe when I 
passed through the district. The road, however, was 
finished ; and we had met a party of the workmen at 
Manawapou, who were on their way to show the dou- 
ble-barrelled fowling-pieces, in which they had insisted 
on receiving the principal part of the payment, to their 
friends at a settlement inland between the Manawapou 
and Patea rivers. 
On one occasion, Mr. Skeffington had not scrupled 
to ride up among the party when at work, and to use 
such expressions and inducements to them to give up 
their engagements, that one of the two honest young 
farmers, who acted throughout as superintendents, had 
told him his cloth alone prevented him from being 
pulled oil' his horse. 
Along this bridle-road we proceeded, accompanied 
by one of Pakeke^ men, who was christened Koriniti, 
