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and worse groomed, to pass quietly over a yawning 
and dangerous chasm in the road, should refuse the 
assistance of a more skilful and able rider, who 
had carefully studied the progressive means necessary 
for profiting by the docile temper of the animal, 
in order to render him as steady and willing as 
other horses, and as complete in all his paces. The 
more intelligent man proposes to break the colt in, 
and to lunge him gently through his paces before even 
placing a rider on his back ; to keep him in good 
health and generous condition ; and points out the 
means for filling up the chasm so that the road may 
be smooth. The other would wish to see the chasm 
filled up, he hardly knows how ; but he obstinately 
rejects the offer of having the colt broken in and 
cared for before he is ridden, and determines rather to 
ride him at it, although ignorant of the right way to 
lift his legs, with a light bit and a weak rein which 
he can break from at his pleasure. To so much 
amounts the objection to civilized colonization, as a 
means of overcoming its irregular predecessor and as 
a necessary step to Christianity. 
The New Zealand Company persevered in the 
intentions of the Association, from whose ashes they 
had sprung. The two Missionary Societies, with their 
extensive ramifications and their joint income of 
200,000/. a-year, persevered in the fulfilment of their 
declarations of hostility. 
The expenditure of the two Missionary Societies in 
New Zealand alone amounted, in the year 1840-41, to 
18,118/. 5s. 6d., of which the Wesleyan mission ex- 
pended nearly 4000/. 
From the first period of our arrival in Cook's Strait, 
we had met with but too many instances of this hos- 
tility, apparently delegated with care to the greater 
