The National Register.
London, England, 1817-12-15 00:00:00

REVIEW OF LITERiITURE.

Narra‘ineßf a Vogage ta•Nennaraland, perfumed in
the .Years 1814 and 3#l 5, teak the Rm.
' • amen., MAftiarso. 1-itscipst Chasp&disk M*
- South Wales.
By JOHN LIDDIARD NICHOLAS, 'E;(1. 2 Vols. Bto.
,Ttte favourable report, of the two Missionaries,7,tia
mentioned itt our last, and the visit of Duaterra to
Port -Jackson, detertninedAr. Mariden.to lire no time
in carrying into ethiet the views of the Clistrek•Mis-
sionary Socio 4% It. nay be: remarkult that. this.Ftos
ciety, at the. saggrstista tif Marsdon,, had. selects l
as Missionaries two mechanics, Mr. Hall and Mr. King,
the one a shoemaker, the other an excellent carpenter,
• and both men of regultr and religious habits; Mr. M.
had wisely judged that moral. features,, and abstruse
. religious discourses,.. were bat ill adapttil to effect any
real good, as a first nstatave, amng, areal of ignorant
savages; his plan was first to pave the way for the in-
troduction of the mechanic arts, by creating artificial
wants, to which they had never been accustomed, and
which, while' they awakened their own iugomity,
would at the same time attach a•character of import-
ance to the Missionaries in the eyes of the natives.—
No profession was likely to be of greater value to them
than that of a carpenter ; and the shoemaker bad, in
addition to his own trade, been taught, at the expense
of the Society, the mode of dressing flax, one species of
which grows in great abundance in New Zealand; with
these men was subsequently associated a Mr. Kendall,
who was to act as schoolmaster, a part he was well
qualified to fill, by his mild and persuasive manners,
and his strong feelings of the duties imposed by reli-
gion. In order to keep up a regular communication
between the infant colony and Port Jackson, and to
.excite the natives to eommercial habits, Mr. Marsden
also purchased a vessel ; this being freighted with
every thing necessary, the Missionaries, with their re-
spective families, Mr. Marsden, Mr. Nicholas, l)ua-
terra, and two' other chiefi4, with their attendants,
quitted Port Jackson, on the 28th of November, 1814.
rn about three weeks they were off the North Cape of
New Zealand. Nothing could exceed the uniform
good humour and mirth displayed by the chiefs during
the voyage ; sometimes relating to their fellow passen-
gers their system of 'mythology, or entertaining them
with their war-songs ; and, on one occasion, Korra-korra
exhibited his mode of warfare, and plan of attacking
his enemies:

" His gesticulations were, op this occasion, more furiously
violent than ever 1 beheld them ;kV thrust out s tongue as
far as it could go, tortured his countenance into all the horri-
ble writhings of savage grimace, stampt in the deck like some
lacing fiend, and staring round him with the glare of the
wildest tretizy in his eys, he brought to our view the most
hideous denizen of the infernal regions. His representation
of taking revenge on his enemies was truly frightful to behold,
After having pursued them in every direction, and got thou'
completely in his pourer, lie appealed as inflicting on them
cruelties the most dreadful that can he imagined ; nor even
with their death wa• his vengeance satisfied ; his fury still
remained unabated,