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oppressors and brutal izers of the New Zealanders, is 
not to be denied. But they were also their first 
civilizers. They taught them many of the wants and 
luxuries of civilized life, and supplied those wants as 
they arose. They taught them to appreciate the com- 
forts of cleanliness, of good houses, food, and clothing ; 
they held out to their emulation the industry, the 
perseverance, and the energy, of the White man. 
They shadowed forth; with a rough and harsh pencil 
to be sure, the blessings of peace and commerce ; and 
they first obtained the respect of the savage for the 
invincible courage and hardihood of our race. The 
frank hospitality and the elevation of the man of 
strong body and will above his fellows, characteristics 
common to the New Zealanders and the whalers, 
assisted much in their rapid amalgamation. Nearly 
the same qualities were necessary to a chief in either 
class ; and it was thus easier for the less civilized and 
less artificial race to acquire the physical improvements 
introduced by the other, even while the vices of the 
refuse of civilization were insidiously destroying many 
of the moral virtues which the savages before possessed. 
The irregular colonizers were thus, without any in- 
tention on their part, except their own selfish enjoy- 
ment, becoming an instrument of change for some 
good and more evil upon the native race ; and the 
very respect which the outcasts bore to a wild chief- 
tainship similar to that which they themselves had 
established when retrograding from the refinements of 
civilized communities, secured the working of this 
instrument by a process analogous to the customs and 
prejudices of the natives, and therefore easy and gra- 
dual. 
So a father, who had been exiled for some offence 
from the most polished society, might, while careless 
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