Some of them were afterwards taken away to the Marquesas Islands in the South Seas: others remained permanently settled at Akaroa.

There around a bay, still called French Bay, they planted vineyards and built cottages in a fashion having some pathetic reminiscences of rural France.

There they used to be visited from time to time by French men-of-war; but they gave no trouble to any one, and their children, by removal or intermarriage, became blended with the English population which in later days surrounded them.
Captain Hobson had to choose a capital.

After throwing away much good money at Russell in the Bay of Islands, he saw that he must come further south.

A broader-minded man might have gone at once to Wellington, and planted himself boldly amongst the English settlers.
But the prejudice of the officials and the advice of the missionaries combined with Hobson's own peculiar views of the Cook's Straits colonists, to keep him in the north.