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We went on with our work about the place, getting on well with the
natives and with those from other parts. We became so friendly with the
natives that I had hoped to go about with them in their canoes. Several
natives from one of the settlements invited me to visit their place, and
said if I went with them in their canoe they would return me. I went
with them, and was well received by all the people at the settlement,
where I spent some hours. On the 21st of December, the _Mayri_ returned
from East Cape, and reported that all were sick, but that the people were
very friendly and kind to teachers. Anxious to keep the vessel employed,
and to prepare the way for landing teachers, I resolved to visit a
settlement on the mainland at deadly feud with this people. The people
here tried hard to dissuade me from going, telling me that, as I stayed
with them, my head would be cut off. Seeing me determined to go, they
brought skulls, saying, mine would be like that, to adorn their enemies'
war canoe, or hang outside the chief's house.
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