de where he then was, Savage could not discover,
shunned all intercourse with Europeans, and was wont to retire to the
interior whenever a ship approached the coast. The natives, however,
whose customs and manners he had adopted, spoke well of him; and Savage
often saw a New Zealand woman who lived with him, and one of their
children, which he represents as very far from exhibiting any
superiority either in mind or person over his associates of unmixed
breed. Its complexion was the same as that of the others, being
distinguished from them only by its light flaxen hair.

Marsden, also, in a letter written in 1813 to the secretary of the
Church Missionary Society, mentions a young man, a native of America,
with whom he had conversed in New South Wales, and who had lived for
above a year with the New Zealanders.

During all this time these savages, he said, had shown him the greatest
attention, and he would have been very glad to return to live among them
if he could have found any other Europeans to go with him.

Since the Bay of Islands has become so much the resort of shipping, many
seamen have left their ships and taken up their residence of their own
accord among the natives. The "Missionary Reports" state that, about the
close of the year 1824, there were perhaps twenty men who had thus found
their way into the country, and were living on plunder; and that within
the year not less, it was supposed, than a hundred sailors had in the
same manner taken refuge for a time in the island.

Although these men had all run away from their own ships, the captains
of other vessels touching at any part of the coast did not hesitate to
employ them when they wanted hands.

Mawman, whom Rutherford met with at Kiperra, had, it will be
recollected, made his escape, according to his own account, from a sloop
of war. These fugitives, however, it would appear, do not always succeed
in establishing themselves among the natives. Cruise mentions one who,
having run away from the "Anne" whaler, hid himself at first in the
woods, but soon after came on board the "Dromedary" in a most miserable
state, beseeching to be taken on the strength of the ship.

Convicts, too, occasionally make their escape to New Zealand, and
attempt to secrete themselves in the interior of the country. When the
"Active" was at the Bay of Islands in 1815, two men and a woman of this
description were sent on board to be taken back to New South Wales. The
woman, N