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had been the bedrock principle of col
onizing since the days of Adam.

had been the bedrock principle of col
onizing since the days of Adam.
After numerous attempts at friendly
intercourse in other localities of the is
land, Cook managed to lure the natives
by gewgaws and barter into some snow
of hospitality Several times later he
revisited the islands before he was
killed, in 1879, in Hawaii. His report
on New Zealand to the king was as
rose-colorel as his description of the ma
tives was dark. On them he used his
blacklist ink. They had no virtues and
q thousand sins. They couldn't DO
anything in a mechanical line, but
scoop out canoes, weave coarse cloth
ing from native flax, and make rude
implements of warfare. Women were
their beasts of burden. With a country
full of iron ore, they didn't know now
to work it. Though good farmers, they
had no wheeled carriages" They
lived a disreputable existence on sweet
potato and taro and wild fowl and fish.
They had most nefarious notions OF
worship and prayer. The priests ran
things with a despotic hand The alb
sorbing idea of the race was war. Ev-
cry tribe and almost every family was
at war with every other. Female infan-
ticide was not uncommon, Female vlr-
tue was at a shockingly low ebb, and
cannibalism was fashionable pastime
John Bull had instructed Cook to be
scrupulous about gathering all particu-
lars of this degraded race, as they
might come handy If determination
was decided upon as the best thing for
the interests of Christian, civilization.
1t wasn't long before Providence
began to figure in the New Zealand
problem. Those now familiar twins,
Duty" and Destiny" took hand in
the game. 1t was made apparent to the
naked eye that the Maoris were highly
improper folk to be left in possession
of such a fertile and picturesque do
main as New Zealand. Destiny of
the regulation Anglo-Saxon kind had
plainly indicated those islands as an
English reservation, to be first pacified
and then equipped with an entirely new
set of British Notwithstanding peo-
pie, cultivation, churches and conf
merce. DUTY" began operations in 1874
and as usual, fired both barrels of his
civilizing gun at the same time Rev.
Samuel Marsden, under the auspices OF
the Church Missionary society Of Eng
land, established mission on one side
of the Bay of stands, where he planted
church and a printing office, and be-
gan scattering abroad the sacred scrip
lures among the benighted heather as
fast as thief could be translated into the
Maori tongue. On the other side of the
bay the Devil ran a large and flourish
ing establishment at the town of Koro-
rarika where Brother Marsden's pious
purposes were ably supplemented. This
became a great resort for the white
crews of Pacific whalers, refugees from
Botany bay and other desirable cfvili-
zers of this reprobate variety, who
could give any savage points in the
game of unbridled bestiality and then
beat him out.
These at once introduced the arts OF
civilization among the natives. They
impressed their superior characters on
the women OF the island and raised a
large progeny of disreputable and I'M
principled half-breeds.
The male natives were promptly ini-
tiated into the mysteries of John Bar
leycorn for John always follows the
cross), and the spread Of his refining In
fluence appears in an item of British
conquest to be found in book written
seventy years later by Ernest Time, a
candid Englishman, who stopped at
small hotel way in the interior, among
the mountains near Lake Taupo. He
saws: 1.-The only Objectionable feature
about the place was the canteen, where
q crowd Of drunken natives were squat
ting before the door, ready to sponge
on the newest arrival for another glass
of their beloved waipero (stinking wa
teri. the curse of their race here as
elsewhere" Who brought the curse?
The same white civilizers that brought
the Bible and the cross. Natives that
resisted religion could always be
reached by rum. and-'all roads lead to
Home" How much of the Maori decl-
nation can be charged to, John Barley
corn has never appeared In any Eng
lish statistics 1t Is well known ana
confessed that he performed his Anglo
saxon duties well in helping the ma
tives out as the British filed IN.
Another of John Bulls favorite colo
NAL methods was employed with telling
effect in New Zealand. Taking the
hint dropped as early as the first re-
port of Captain Cook, where he told or
the numerous intertribal hostilities, the
invaders played both ends against the
middle as the card men would say
That is when any particular tribe
started in to resist the program OF pe-
nevolent assimilation they bought an
armed alliance with that tribes I'M
friendly neighbors around them, in this
wav using the native Hessians to aid
their own red coats in overpoWering the
disturber, with all possible loss-the
more the better, for no New Iealander
is as good as a dead one. AS is the
case. almost invariably, in this branch
of the subiugation business, those ma
tives who fought their own countfymen
in the interest of the invader, were the
lowest types of the race. When MIR.
THINE already quoted for his candor,
visited the native village of Ohinenutu,
where the tribe Of ATawas live, he
found the place full of drunken natives
from points near by, for whom a group
Of Young girls were dancing the volup-
tuous lake"
He calls them consummate race OF
thieves. these Arawas, and ADDS: Il
found these men; who were our allies
during the war (not that they liked us
,,,ara h,1t that they liked the rebels