432 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Cuap. XVH. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
Review of the condition of the natives — Their intercourse with the 
whalers — Church Mission — Samuel Marsden — His object and 
plans — His doings in New Zealand — Purchase of a site — Deed of 
conveyance — Wise benevolence of Marsden — Progress — Increas- 
ing influence — Captain Laplace — Failure of Marsden's project, 
how caused — The independence of New Zealand — How concocted 
— Details of coincident missionary land- sharking — Progress of 
labours — Wesleyan Mission — Struggles and perils — Revival — 
New Zealand Association opposed by both missionary societies — 
Income of the societies — Their expenditure in New Zealand — 
Hostility delegated to local missionaries — Results of missionary 
labours — The Government and the natives — Want of system — 
Treaty of Waitatigi — Official and literal translations — Disre- 
garded by -both parties — Incongruities of Government —Conflict- 
ing systems for the good of the natives— Confusion produced in 
their minds — Results to be dreaded — Hopes for the appointment 
of an able Governor — Crown colonies and Chartered colonies — 
Captain Grey on aborigines — Known prejudices of Captain 
Fitzroy. 
Since the fatal catastrophe at TVairmiy the thoughts of 
the reasoning men among the settlers had been directed 
more seriously than ever to the apparently inevitable 
overthrow of the noble experiment in which they had 
come to take a part ; namely, that of civilizing and 
Christianizing the aborigines on a comprehensive and 
statesmanlike system. At the Club, at each others 
houses, while looking over the operations on a farm, 
or at any other place where they met and discussed 
their little politics, a sincere regret for this result was 
generally manifested, and its causes were traced with a 
view to a remedy if possible. 
That the rough whalers and sealers were first the 
