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ANDREW POWERS. 
On the Monday, when I preached to them before my 
departure, I felt so ovei’powered by the sight, that I could not 
proceed, and when I left, the entire congregation followed me 
for nearly a mile, and with many tears bade me farewell. Thus 
terminated the Mission of Manihera and Kereopa. 
Some of the adventures of our sailors in the early days of 
our acquaintance with New Zealand are interesting; of such is 
the following:— 
On the 14th January, 1831, a man named Andrew Powers 
entered the Wanganui river; he formed one of a boat’s crew 
which came from Kapiti on a trading expedition : there were 
three white and one colored man with him. They rowed as far 
as a sandy bight, adjoining the South Bluff, where they landed 
to dine, and whilst doing so, a party of natives joined company, 
which had some cooked food with them, two baskets of which 
they gave to the party. Whilst eating their dinner, one of 
the natives went and sat in the boat; a man named Joe, 
called out to Powers to go and turn him out. Powers 
replied, you had better do so yourself, as you know more 
about Maori than I do. Joe then got up, and asked him 
what he wanted in the boat. The native replied, to look at 
him. The sailor commanded him to leave, and when the 
native continued to sit still, he took hold of his mat to drag 
him out. The native immediately arose and drew out his 
patiti (hatchet), from beneath his mat, and cleft his skull open. 
Powers went to help his comrade, when a native named Wetu, 
knocked him overboard, and as he laid hold of the boat with 
one hand, they immediately struck him over it, and made him 
let go. He then put his hand on the side of their canoe, and 
got in. The natives pulled him down on his belly, one sitting 
on his legs and another on his arms, and so held him for some 
time; when he was permitted to look up, he found three of 
his comrades had been killed. The man of color had been 
spared. They cut off the heads of Joe and Tom, and placed 
them to steep in a little water hole above the cliff, down which 
a small stream trickled. One of these heads was afterwards 
dried in the usual way for sale; the other being very much 
