Two faced certain death in the endeavour to carry the Gospel to the Taupo heathen, and met their fate with cheerful courage.

Comic as Maori sectarianism became, it was not more ridiculous than British.

It is true that rival tribes gloried in belonging to different denominations, and in slighting converts belonging to other churches.

On one occasion, a white wayfarer, when asking shelter for the night at a _pa_, was gravely asked to name his church.

He recognised that his night's shelter was at stake, and had no notion what was the reigning sect of the village.