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man, about six feet high, and proportionably stout, 
his limbs firm and muscular, and, when dressed in 
his war-cloak, with all his implements of death 
appended to his person, he must have appeared 
formidable to his enemies. When acquainted 
with our business, he prepared to accompany us ; 
but before we set out, an incident occurred that 
greatly raised my estimation of his character. In 
front of the hut sat his wife, and around her 
played two or three little children. In passing 
from the hut to the boat, Tetoro struck one of the 
little ones with his foot; the child cried—and, 
though the chief had his mat on, and his gun in 
his hand, and was in the act of stepping into the 
boat where we were waiting for him, he no sooner 
heard its cries, than he turned back, took the child 
up in his arms, stroked its little head, dried its 
tears, and, giving it to the mother, hastened to 
join us. His conversation in the boat, during the 
voyage, so far as it was made known to me, indi¬ 
cated no inferiority of intellect, nor deficiency of 
local information. On reaching Waikadie, about 
twenty miles from our ship, we were met by 
Waivea, Tetoro's brother ; but his relationship 
appeared to be almost all that he possessed in com¬ 
mon with him, as he was both in appearance and 
in conduct entirely a savage. 
It was in the month of December, 1816, that I 
visited New Zealand ; and here for the first time 
saw the rude inhabitants of the South Sea Islands, 
in their native state. At daylight, on the morn¬ 
ing after our arrival on the coast, we found our¬ 
selves off Wangaroa bay, where, six years before, 
the murderous quarrel took place, in which the 
crew of the Boyd were cut off by the natives, and 
near which, subsequently, the Methodist Mission- 
