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HISTORY. 
resembled the small pox, by leaving marks all over their bodies. 
These plates they broke up, and having drilled holes through 
the fragments, wore them as ear and breast ornaments; one 
thing taken is said to have been shaped like a mere , and 
was therefore very highly prized. It is still in the possession 
of some one belonging to the Nga-te-hine tribe. The natives 
say this was the first time they ever saw iron, they made adzes 
of the spike nails. 
In 1793, whaling ships began to visit New Zealand. In 
1809, the massacre of the Boyd, commanded by Captain 
Thompson, took place; this melancholy event was occasioned 
by the captain foolishly causing a chief named George, who 
came as a passenger in his ship from Sydney,-to be flogged. 
Indignant at the insult, he dissembled his feelings, and recom¬ 
mended the captain to visit Wangaroa, of which he was a 
principal chief, where he promised to procure him spars; the 
captain unwisely consented, and there he and his crew, together 
with many passengers, lost their lives. 
About 1800, or earlier, Governor King visited the north 
end of the island, and took away two natives, to teach the 
convicts in Norfolk island the way of working flax from the 
phormium tenax, which also grew there. He was a great bene¬ 
factor to the country by introducing maize, pigs, and potatoes. 
In 1807, a vessel was taken by the Tokumaru natives, and 
all the crew, but Rutherford, were killed ; he was spared, and 
lived with the natives at the East Cape for some years. The 
account published of him in the Library of Entertaining 
Knowledge, is very valuable, containing authentic information, 
of the manners and customs of the people. 
On the 19th December, 1814, Mr. Marsden, the senior 
chaplain of New South Wales, first landed at the Cavallos; 
and on the Christmas-day following, the Gospel was preached 
for the first time at Rangihu, in the Bay of Islands, from the 
appropriate text, “ Behold, I bring you glad tidings of great 
joy.”—Luke ii., 10. 
In 1820, Hongi and Waikato accompanied Mr. Kendal to 
England, when Professor Lee drew up the New Zealand 
grammar. Three years later, the Wesleyans commenced a 
