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vemment officer who treated a native as his brother so 
entirely as I did E Kuru or TVahine Hi, as Colonel 
Wakefield did EPuni, or as many other " devils" did 
the chief to whom they had become especially attached. 
The uncharitable and intolerant rivalry between the 
two sects, almost threatening a religious war between 
actual brothers, was an equally repulsive feature in 
the view. 
Generally, the missionary converts might be likened 
to a family of poor labourers, to whom their landlords 
should have extended the routine charity of tracts, en- 
couraging the children to scorn the authority of their 
parents if they could more quickly learn the contents 
by rote. To crown all, the miserable paupers, in this 
state of domestic anarchy, with their memories full of 
texts from the Bible while their stomachs are craving 
for food, and their limbs shivering, undefended by 
filthy rags from the weather which penetrates through 
their ruinous hut, are then only admitted to the com- 
panionship of their scanty benefactor as menials. 
Such was the narrow benevolence which the mis- 
sionaries maintained against one which provided more 
amply for the whole necessities of the case. 
Next to be considered is the system adopted by the 
local Government towards the natives. Although it 
could hardly be called a system at all, it leaned rather 
towards the missionary principles than towards a more 
enlarged philanthropy. 
In order to obtain a government at all, the first Go- 
vernor threw himself unreservedly into the hands of 
the Reverend Henry Williams and the other mission- 
aries at the Bay of Islands. They were, without a 
doubt, the authors and interpreters of the Treaty of 
Waitangly on which are founded all the relations be- 
tween the Government and the natives, and which 
