ith; his potato grounds were
uncultivated, and he had not a hoe to break them up with, nor a tool to
employ his people; and that, for want of cultivation, he and his people
would have nothing to eat. He begged me to compare the land of
Tippoonah,[BH] which belonged to the inhabitants of Ranghee-hoo[BI] and
Shungie, with his; observing, that their land was already prepared for
planting, because a smith was there, and they could get hoes, &c. I
endeavoured to pacify his mind with promises, but he paid little
attention to what I said in respect to sending him a smith at a future
period."

Pomaree was by much too cunning to be cheated of his object in this way.
He was evidently determined not to go without something in hand; and
nothing accordingly would drive him from his point.

When Marsden tried to divert his attention to another subject by asking
him if he should wish to go to England, he replied at once that he
should not; adding, with his characteristic shrewdness, that he was a
little man when at Port Jackson, and should be less in England; but in
his own country he was a great king. The conference ended at last by an
express promise that he should have immediately three hoes, an axe, a
few nails, and a gimlet. This instantly put him in great good humour.

We have collected these notices in order to give a more complete
illustration of so singular and interesting a character as that formed
by the union of the rude and bloodthirsty barbarian with the bustling
trafficker. It is an exhibition of the savage mind in a new guise. We
have only to add, with regard to Pomaree, that it appears by other
authorities, as well as by the notice we find in Rutherford, that he was
in the habit of making very devastating excursions occasionally to the
southern part of the island. When Cruise left New Zealand in 1820, he
had been away on one of these expeditions nearly a year, nor was it
known exactly where he had gone to. The people about the mouth of the
Thames said they had seen him since he left home, but he had long ago
left their district for one still farther south. The last notice we find
of him, is in a letter from the Rev. H. Williams, in the "Missionary
Register" for 1827, in which it is stated, that he had a short time
before fallen in battle, having been cut to pieces, with many of his
followers, by a tribe on whom he had made an attack.

This event, of the circumstances of which Dillon was furnished with a
particular