neighbourhood of Kendal,[BF] the missionary. He
had about five hundred warriors with him, and several war-canoes, in one
of which I observed a trunk, having on it the name of Captain Brin, of
the 'Asp,' South Seaman. These people had also with them a number of
muskets, with polished barrels, and a few small kegs of powder, as well
as a great quantity of potatoes and flax mats. They had plundered and
murdered nearly every person that lived between the East Cape and the
river Thames; and the whole country dreaded the name of Bomurry.

"This great warrior showed us several of the heads of chiefs whom he had
killed on this expedition, and these, he said, he intended to carry back
with him to the Bay of Islands, to sell for gunpowder to the ships that
touched there. He and his followers having taken leave of us, and set
sail in their canoes, we also left the East Cape the day following, and
proceeded on our journey homewards, travelling during the day, and
encamping at night in the woods, where we slept around large fires under
the branches of the trees. In this way we arrived in four days at our
own village, where I was received by Eshou, my eldest wife, with great
joy. I was much fatigued by my journey, as was also my other wife,
Epecka, who had accompanied me."

The person whom Rutherford here calls Bomurry is doubtless the chief
described in most of the other recent accounts of New Zealand under the
name of Pomaree, or Pomarree[BG], one of the most extraordinary
characters in that country. He had taken this name instead of another by
which he used to be called, Nicholas informs us, a short time before he
first saw him in 1815, because he had heard that it was that of the king
of Otaheite, according to the practice which prevails among his
countrymen of frequently changing their names, and calling themselves
after persons of whose power or rank they have conceived a high idea.

Pomaree is described by this gentleman as having been looked upon, even
in his own country, as a monster of rapacity and cruelty, always
involved in quarrels with his neighbours, and in the habit of stealing
their property whenever he had an opportunity. Duaterra asserted that on
a recent occasion he had made an incursion into his territory, and,
without any provocation, murdered six of his people, the bodies of all
of whom he afterwards devoured, not even their heads having escaped his
gluttony, after he had stuck them upon a stick and roasted th