Nearly sixty years have passed since then, and the Maori race is by no means extinct.

But Captain Hobson, though a conscientious and gallant man, was no more imbued with the colonizing spirit than might be expected of any honest English naval officer.

Of such money as he had he wasted L15,000 at the outset in buying a site for a town in the Bay of Islands on a spot which he quickly had to abandon.

Moreover, he was just what a man in his irksome and difficult position should not have been--an invalid.

Within a few weeks after the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi he was stricken with paralysis.