But at the same time his treaty and his proclamation were bound to paralyse settlement, to exasperate the entire white population, and to plunge the infant colony into a sea of troubles.

Outside the missionaries and the officials every one was uneasy and alarmed.

All the settlers were either landowners, land claimants, or would-be land purchasers.

Yet they found themselves at one and the same time left without titles to all that they thought they possessed, and debarred from the right of buying anything more except from the Crown.

And as the Governor was without funds, and the Crown, therefore, could not buy from the natives, there was a deadlock.