He is of the district of Teerawittee ...

Toogee Teterrenue Warripedo is of the same age as Hoodoo, but about three inches shorter." Poor Huru, poor Tuki! While the missionaries were slowly winning their way through respect to influence in the northern quarter of the country, and were giving the Maori a written language and the Bible, very different agents were working for civilization further south.

From the last decade of the eighteenth century onwards the islands were often sought by whaling-ships.

Gradually these came in greater numbers, and, until about the year 1845, were constantly to be seen in and about certain harbours--notably the Bay of Islands.

But not by the utmost stretch of charity could their crews be called civilizing agencies.