. The official handbook of New Zealand : a collection of papers by experienced colonists on the colony as a whole and on the several provinces ; edited by Julius Vogel . orepart of it, and the others withgreat activity paddled her off, the rest ofthe canoes following as fast as they this the marines, who were underarms on deck, were ordered to fire. Theshot was directed to that part of the canoewhich was furthest from the boy, and ratherwide of her, being willing rather to missthe rowers than to hurt him, upon whichthe others quitted their hold of the boy,who instantly leaped into t
. The official handbook of New Zealand : a collection of papers by experienced colonists on the colony as a whole and on the several provinces ; edited by Julius Vogel . orepart of it, and the others withgreat activity paddled her off, the rest ofthe canoes following as fast as they this the marines, who were underarms on deck, were ordered to fire. Theshot was directed to that part of the canoewhich was furthest from the boy, and ratherwide of her, being willing rather to missthe rowers than to hurt him, upon whichthe others quitted their hold of the boy,who instantly leaped into the water andswam towards the ship. The large canoeimmediately pulled round and followed him,but some muskets and a great gun beingfired at her, she desisted from the ship being brought to, a boat waslowered, and the poor boy was taken upunhurt, though so terrified that for a timehe seemed to be deprived of his of the gentlemen, who traced thecanoes to shore with their glasses, said thatthey saw three men carried up the beach,who appeared to be either dead or whollydisabled by their wounds. To the capeoff which this unhappy transaction hap-. Pu THE PROVINCE OF HAWKES BAY. 219 pened, I gave the name of Cape Kid-iiappers. After Captain Cooks visit there was along interval during which the shores ofHawkes Bay remained unvisited by whitemen. In the early part of the present cen-tury it began to be a resort for whalers,some of whom from time to time settleddown among the Natives, and became whatare known as Pakelui-Maoris. If they weremen of energy and capacity, as was not un-frcquently the case, they attained, as a rule,positions of influence, and their influence,in spite of all that has been said to the con-trary, we believe was, on the whole, bene-flciul. Mission stations were established bythe Church of England in 1843, and by theIvoman Catholics in 1851. It is not possible to fix any date at whichit can be said that the settlement of HawkesBay was founded
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