Early the next morning thirty-six canoes arrived opposite to the mission station, some containing forty men; and notice was given that if the commissioners appointed on either side did not come to terms, the white men would be the sacrifice.
The day was spent in conferences, but at night the chief of the hostile tribe clove a stick in two, in token that his anger was broken, and the two parties joined in a hideous war-dance, frequently firing their muskets; but peace was ratified, and Mr.Marsden found that real progress had been made among the natives around the stations.

Many had become true and sincere Christians, among them the widow and daughters of Hunghi.

A Maori Christian woman was married by Mr.Marsden to an Englishman.

She made all the responses in good English, and appeared in decent English clothes of her own sewing.

He also married a young man, free, and of good family, to a girl who had been a slave taken in war, who was redeemed from her master for five blankets, an axe, and an iron pot.