608 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XIX. 
" older, you will have a great deal more prudence and 
*' discretion. Your conduct has been most indiscreet. 
"In the observations which I made to this assembly 
" just now, I referred almost entirely to you. I strongly 
" disapprove and very much regret everything that you 
"have written and done regarding the missionaries 
*' and the natives in New Zealand. I repeat that your 
" conduct has been most indiscreet." 
I was so perfectly astounded, that I gained some 
credit for forbearance, which I should otherwise not 
have deserved. I looked steadily in the Governor's 
face while he spoke ; and when he had done, walked 
away in silence without bowing again, and left the 
room. I walked into the billiard-room adjoining. 
Two ofl&cers of the frigate left the room, apparently 
fearing lest they should become unwilling listeners to 
treason, so violently did some of the principal settlers 
express their feelings. The Crown Prosecutor was 
sneering at the exasperated party, and reminding them 
that " he had predicted they would get King Stork 
" instead of King Log." 
I again took a peep into the presence-room. It was 
fast thinning. A large number of the most respecta- 
ble settlers, feeling that their sentiments were the 
same as mine, had put their cards in their pockets and 
left the room without being presented. In a few 
minutes his Excellency remained standing with only 
the officers of the frigate and of the troops looking at 
each other. He then advanced to the open window, 
and began to address the mob of labourers and others 
of the lower classes. He preached on the same text. 
" Live and let live !" he shouted to them ; and the 
labourers cheered vociferously, for they thought he 
was alluding to a recent dispute about the rate of 
wages between the employers and the workmen. But 
