her of the youth should reproach him with the omission.

Mr. Marsden made known all that he had been able to gather of the
promising nature of the field of labour in New Zealand, and sought aid
from the Church Missionary Society, since the Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel was then unable to reach beyond the colonies. The almost
universal indifference of the upper classes to missionary labour was
terribly crippling in the matter of means; and perhaps the fact was that
the underbred class of agents of the Societies stirred up by the example
of Marshman and Carey, together with the vulgarly-sensational appeals
against which Ward's good taste so strongly protested, greatly tended to
make them incredulous. It was not till the statements of scholars and
gentlemen, like Henry Martyn and Bishop Heber, became generally known,
that the work was looked on without sarcasm, provoked by vulgarity, even
where there was great devotion.

No clergyman could be found to undertake the mission to New Zealand; but
William Hall and John King, two laymen, undertook to act as pioneers,
with instructions to establish family worship, converse on religion with
the natives, and instruct their children; trying, at the same time, to
show the benefits of civilization, but to take care it was not confounded
with Christianity.

These two good men, who were presently followed by Thomas Kendall, sailed
in the same ship with Mr. Marsden, when, in August 1809, he paid his last
farewell to his native land, and sailed in the _Ann_ for New South Wales.
Strange to say, this very ship contained a Maori, on his return home! He
was a young chief named Duaterra, who had, in a spirit of adventure,
embarked on board a whaler named the _Argo_, and worked as a sailor for
six months, till the captain, having no further occasion for his
services, put him ashore at Port Jackson, without payment or friends.
However, he embarked in another whaler, and worked his way home, but soon
was on board of a third English ship, the _Santa Anna_, in search of seal-
skins, and having conceived a great desire to see the country whence
these vessels came forth, and to know its chief, he engaged to come to
England in it, the captain and sailors not scrupling to promise him an
introduction to King George. When the _Santa Anna_ reached England, the
crew had grown tired of him, used him roughly and harshly, and tried to
put him off his pertinacious recollection of the promise o