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TE RAUPARAHA AND RANGIHAEATA. 
he alternately resided, and with much patience and persever¬ 
ance, love and zeal, he persisted, firmly supported by the 
young Chiefs, who lent all their influence to further his 
labors, so that soon the hymn was heard instead of the 
haka; and the hand grasped the Gospel of Peace, instead 
of the deadly gun. 
In 1840, The Tory arrived, bearing the first settlers sent 
out by the recently-formed New Zealand Company. Men of 
family and fortune came in this ship, captivated by the glow¬ 
ing accounts of New Zealand, published by the Company, 
which said, all was now peace, and cannibalism only lived in 
remembrance. Had the passengers in that vessel, however, 
known, they might have seen a column of smoke curling up 
above the trees of Porirua, where they were then cooking a 
cannibal repast. Some time previously to the arrival of The 
Tory , a Captain Cherry was murdered by a Porirua native. 
When the people saw that vessel, they mistook it for a man- 
of-war, and fancied it came to demand satisfaction for the 
murder ; they, therefore, determined to take payment them¬ 
selves beforehand, to show the English they had nothing to 
do with the crime. It appears that poor Captain Cherry’s feet 
had been held down by a slave, whilst his master killed him. 
Maori justice fell on the former—he was killed and eaten, 
whilst his guilty master escaped. 
The New Zealand Company made land purchases in various 
parts of the straits at Taranaki, Wanganui, Port Nicholson, 
and Nelson; but, unfortunately, not being acquainted with 
the sub-divisions of property or the language, they fancied 
they were purchasing far more than the natives either intended 
to sell or possessed the power of parting with. The vague and 
unsatisfactory way in which these purchases were made, were 
productive of serious evils, constant disputes arose, the claims 
were disallowed, and the settlement of the land delayed. It 
is not necessary now to resuscitate the remembrance of them. 
Hitherto Rauparaha had lived on terms of amity with the 
Europeans. He derived his strength in a great measure from 
that intercourse, and therefore it was his interest still to main¬ 
tain it. He now came into collision with the settlers. The 
