Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.2): between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagles's circumnavigation of the globe

608 WARIPOAKA LA KAVORITE. DcC. well as very strong. But there are opposing feelings, each powerful, in the same individuals ; and upon education, habit, and the accidents of moments, depend their development and the ascendancy which either may obtain. On the following day (29th), Waripoaka visited the Beagle ; he was accompanied by a mixed assemblage of men, women, children, pigs, dogs, and fowls, all in one large canoe. His own appearance, a spare figure and tattowed face, ill-dressed in a shabby old suit of European clothes ; and the disorderly group in his train, formed an unfavourable outward contrast to the warlike array of a heathen New Zealand chief. Waripoaka seemed to be very intelligent and unassuming ; perhaps his manner to white men was too humble. It did not agree with pre-conceived ideas of an independent, haughty New Zea- lander, to see bows and awkward grimaces (intended for good manners) made by a man whose eye and aspect at once pre- cluded the idea of any approach to refined habits. During our stay at New Zealand we heard much of the zealous activity of the officers of ' La Favorite' — a French surveying ship — which had lately visited, and made a minute plan of the Bay of Islands. They must have examined every corner and ascended every hill, by the accounts we received ; but neither natives nor English settlers seemed able to compre- hend the principle which animated Captain La Place and the officers of La Favorite to take so much trouble in a foreign country for no good to themselves alone. I was able to ex- plain this to some of them by instancing my own occupation on the shores of South America, and showing that nations acted upon grander principles than individuals. I was told that M. La Place had likewise examined, with much care, a consi- derable extent of the eastern sea-coasts of the northern large island (Eaheinomawe, or Yahinomaui). The term Rangatira, Rangateeda, or Rangatida, has spread among all classes, excepting only the slaves, who are prisoners taken in war or their descendants, Every free Zealander now styles himself rangatira. At Otaheite there is a very limited number of raatiras, as