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carrying of water, or of fern for your bed, and even for 
every stick of fire-wood before you are allowed to burn 
it. And you are withal treated with indifference to 
your friendship, and suspicion of your every motion 
and look, because you are a " devil," which means 
" not a missionary." 
These tribes seem to have been tamed, without being 
in the least civilized, by the new order of things. They 
eat, live, and dress in the same unclean and unwhole- 
some manner as before ; and though they can read and 
write their own language tolerably, and repeat nearly 
all the New Testament by rote, they do not seem to 
have acquired a single generous feeling or the slightest 
refinement of ideas. They always excite in my mind 
the deepest commiseration for their totally disorgan- 
ized state. 
It was only at Otumatua that I met with any kind- 
ness or chieftain-like treatment. Turori, a sister of 
Herekiekie, the chief of Tokanu at Taupo, had been 
taken captive at the battle of TVaitotara in 1840, and 
had fallen to the share of a man christened PFiremu, 
or " Williams," at Manawapoii. But being esteemed 
a great beauty among the natives, — that is to say, being 
of very masculine figure, with large prominent fea- 
tures, a bushy head of hair, loud voice, and well 
tatned between the lower lip and the chin, — Turori 
had soon become the ruler of her master, to any extent 
but that of letting her return to her native country. 
But there were many more claimants to her affec- 
tions among the natives of the neigh])ouring pas^ and 
she had at length abandoned her master to go and 
marry a handsome young teacher at Otumatua, called 
Nera, or " Nay lor." A fierce quarrel of course 
ensued between the master and the husband. The 
relations of either party took part in the dis})ute. 
