STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT

AUCKLAND, SATUEDAY, JANUARY 14, 1882.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN MARMON, THE HOKIANGA PAKEHA MAORI; OR, Seventy-five Years in New Zealand.

fALIi EIGHTS RESERVED.!

CHAPTER Kin,

We bad a. fine run in the "Fanny "over to Hobart Towu.nothing of interest happen in» during tlic voyage, save that our cap tain died when oil" the North Cape, from the effects of opium, taken to dull a frightful attack of toothache. He was a lino fellow, Captain Jones, and was much liked by his crew, many of whom had been with him over two years. As the first mate, Mr Hudson, knew nothing of the coast, and I had an intimate acquaintance ■with it from the cruise of the " Harwich," he placed the ship in my charge, and I brought it safely into the Derwent, laying her alongside the quay in Sullivan's Cove without a mishap. As usual, when all work was over I deserted, remaining in hiding in Sam Harris's public-house until the' 'Fanny" left. Then I was at liberty to go about and see the changes in Hobart Town sinco my last visit. I found the streets laid out with regularity, the houses roomy and substan tial, and many buildings displaying taste and art erected, sneh as the Government house, the church, the barracks, the gaol, the hospital, besides a very strong battery on Mulgravc's Point at the entrance of Sullivans Cove. The great line of road from Hobart Town to Launccstou and George Town was being diligently pushed on, good strong bridges having been thrown over the several rivers and creeks. Farm in? was being busily carried on, barley and oats attaining a perfection, even greater than in New South Wales. The cultiva tion of the potato also is much pursued by the farmers, as it seems to thrive there very well. Cattle raising, too, is much affected here, as the natural grasses give abundance of food for stock in all seasons of the year, thus doing away with the necessity of providing winter food. The breed of sheep is good. Several of the merino sheep imported into IV.S.W. by Mr John Macarthur, the hero of the Bligh row, have been introduced here, and &re rapidly improving the quality of wool. I found the seal fishery being prose cuted with great success on the coasts, and the whale fisheries going on briskly since the duty on oil had been repelled, I remained some time in Hobart Town, doing odd jobs so as to keep myself alive, but getting tired of this hand to mouth existence, and a great scarcity coming on, I determined to join a party of bushrangers, and become a knight of the road. Accordingly, having relieved my friend Sam Harris by night of .1 ranVknt and pistol without his knowledge, I caught a horse belonging to I don't know who, and took the Launceston road to commence operations. The first individual I stuck up was a parson, with never a penny on him, but who wanted me to get down and (nay with him on the road. Thanking him kindly.and telling him to mind his own business,l parsed on till I saw a light in the distance. When I came up I found that it proceeded from a small house in a ' clearing, the only occupant of which was a ratherjnice looking youn',' woman. Demand ing entrance, I asked her if she had any money, when she gave me some Spanish moidores, a dollar or two, and three notes of the Bank of New Sou'h Wales, implor ing me to have pity on a helpless female. I could not help giving her a kiss and a chuck under the chin as I left, promising to come back and see., her. I had only gone a mile when I was myself bailed up by a party of three bushrangers, who, when they found I was of the profession, received me into their number as a valu able acquisition. A gay life we led, buried by day in our camp at Ti-tree Bush on the other "side of the Derwent from Hobart Town, issu ing, out at midnight to pursue our calling. Pursuit we set at defiance, although parties of settlers and military were constantly scouring the country in search of us, and our band was further increased to the number of 8, so that we were now in a position to make a stand should we be brought to bay. Dick Hounslow was our captain, as brave a heart as over took a pu'se, and the chief order he enforced was implicit obedi ence. We soon acquired notoriety and wealth; we even ventured into llobart Town at night, had a spree, and were oIF with probably half the loose money in the place in our pockets. These were brave days, that a man looks back upon with long in" and delight, though now he may be unable to walk ten yards without help. Had we kept together we might have set the country at defiance, but in an evil hour we admitted a stranger into our band who was a spy in disguise, and was the means of betraying us. One night during my watch in the bright moonlight I saw some agues stealing through the ti-tree towards the camp, and caught the gleam of a musket barrel in the shadow. Instantly 1 <r ave the alarm and was on my horse and away, but Hounslow with five of my com rades was, after a severe conflict, captured, tried, and executed. I attempted to release them by breaking open the gaol, but only endangered my own safety, and made the ■watch over them be more strictly main tained. For a little longer I kept up bush ranging, but presently the country began to wet too hot for me, therefore disguising myself IJshipped on board the "Himalaya" for Calcutta, determined to put a stretch of sea between myself and the scenes of my former life. If at any tima of my life, reader, I would have reformed it was now. I had seen so many varieties of life, had tasted so much of the wickedness of ex istence that a thought floated across me might I not begin anew, and under other skies forget my black past in a bright and virtuous present, had my fate permitted me to reach India; but when we were ten days out from Hobart Town a heavy south west gale sprang u|>, which lasted more or less for 12 days, at the end of which time we were oft" the North Cape of New Zealand, and were compelled to put into the Bay of Islands in a rather crippled state. My worse destiny had led me back, my penitent fit left me like the parly dew, .amidst old scenes and associa tions, the longing for my pakeha-Mlaori life returned, and I deserted from the "Hima laya," once more to resume it. I had

learned one thing, however, in this last voyage, which proved ot invaluable service to me. On mentioning to one of my mates the singular circumstance, how the Maori tohungas were able to produce the whistl ing soundon the roof, or replies from dis tant parts of the building, he said the ex planation was easy, and immediately pro duced the same effect himself. He was a man of greatknowledgo and education, but a slave to drink. I implored him to teach me the socr«+, which after some hesitation he consented to do, adding, however, that my voice might not have the power to pro duce the sound. He disclosed it to me, and after many trials and failures at length 1 succeeded'in obtaining the same results as he did. Ho named it "Second Speaking," but I hear now the more learned name of ventriloquism has been given to it. He also initiated me into the secret of mesmer ism, in which under him I attained to some proficiency, and gave mo useful hints in the preparation of herbs and simples. I knew now that my position aniong-t the Maoris would be totally different, I was in pos session of secrets they could never dream of, and if I did not become a great toh unga it was my own fault. A Maori never looks at causes, only effects, and I was convinced that in a short time I should have acquired an ascendancy over their minds which no Ariki (Great Chief) or tohunga could under any circumstances have possessed.

The first man whom I met ashore was Parson Mnrsden, who was still pushing oh the Mission, He wanted to know what I intended doing. I replied, "Resume my former life." He offered me the billet I held before as .servant in the Mission estab lishment, but I refused it, as there was too little freedom attached to the ollice ; hut I said until I made all my arrangements I would work for him for food and shelter. This was agreed to, and I commenced my duties again. Parson Kendall had gone home with Hongi, who was beins; received with great honour in the Old Country, so that Parsons Hall and Marsden were all in the Mission station at that time.

I very narrowly escaped detection at this time. A vessel had come into the Bay for wood and wuter, and as she might have letters from Sydney, Parson Marsdon asked mo to go aboard and enquire. I did so, and found she was the "Governor Macqunrio," bound for"Hobart Town with convicts. Whilst talking with the captain on the poop, who was auzious to gain some infor mation about New Zealand, the female convicts were brought up to get the air on deck. My eye suddenly seemed to catch a familiar face, and to my unbounded surprise I recognised Dolly, my wife, whom I after wards found out was being transported to Van Dieman's Land for sedition and insti gation of rebellion. I suppose, reader, you have already woven a romance how we ex changed glances, how I planned and exe cuted an escape for her, and how we lived happily ever afterwards. No such thing. A man's personal safety is dearer to him than any other human being's. I knew if I revealed myself I should be seized and taken back to Hobart Town. Accordingly, after finishing my chat with the captain, ascertaining there were no letters, and re ceiving from him a bottle oE f,' r °g as a re membrance, I returned to my boat and rowed ashore, 'leaving Dolly to her fate. Trust no one in this world, reader, if you wish to save yourself and your pocket.

This incident, however, served to show me how careful I must he with whom I associated, as a single trace of emotion on board the "Governor Macquarie" would inevitably havo consigned me to the gal lows. I therefore determined to return to my house in Tawitiwai's hainga, and bide my time until something turned up. Had I immediately followed out this resolution I might have been saved as great a scare as ever I have experienced in ray existence. The "Pretty Jane," Captain Fames, hav ing come into the Day to get wood and water, as usual I went aboard to hear the news and get a drop of ram. The captain's wife had had a baby that morning, and in his satisfaction over the happy occurrence he gave the sailors some bottles of ruin to drink the health of the mother and child. When I got aboard the "boys," who wero very jolly dogs, would insist on me joining them ;so nothing loth I consented. We had a great spree, everyone being very drunk, during which, when everyone was boasting of his achievements, I let out that I had belonged to Dick Hounslow's gang of bushrangers in Van Dicuian's Land. Now the " Pretty Jane" had been in Hobart Town before she came to New Zealand, and the sailors were aware of the reward offered for the remaining member of the band still at large. This meant me ;so that when they came to know what I had been in Van Diemnn's Land they formed a plan to seize me, hand me over to justice in Sydney, and claim the reward. Fortunately for me I overheard them arranging this, when they supposed I was stupefied with rum. But my fortune was not to desert me yet. I noiselessly got up, slipped on deck, and before they were aware was rowing for bare life towards the shore. Two or three minutes sufficed for them to lower the jolly boat from the davits, man it, and start in pursuit, maddened to sco their prey slipping from their grasp. I was always a good hafld with an oar, but when a man is rowing for his life he is a match for any champion going. Yet, one man against six is too heavy odds alto gether, and to my horror I could see their beat creeping slowly on me. Nearer and nearer it came, though I strained every nerve, and the very muscles in my arms cracked again. Slowly, but surely, they were making on me. I had at lea»t eighty yards start to begin with, but soon it was reduced to seventy, then sixty, then fifty, forty, until barely thirty yards separated us when my boat grounded on the shore. In an in«tant 1 was out and away like a deer, making for the bn«h ana the Keri-Keri. Not long were they before I heard thorn in pursuit. The chase promised to be a stern one, for they were good runnerc, and so was I. I kept the shore for foiiic time, so as to do the best of my running there; and then when I felt my strength beginning to go, made for the bush. But my pursuers were in better wind than I wa°, for presently I beaan to feel exhaustion creeping on me, whilst they wero steadily lessening the dis tance between us. The pace was nelt ing, and never for an instant did they lose sight of me. I kept for some the bush track, and then struck off-still they followed. I doubled on them, and re doubled; still, like sleuth-hounds, they kept on my trail, until, at length, when my strength was nigh tailinsr, catching hold of a rata stem (most gigantic of all creepers), enciiciing an immense totara tre°, when for an instant I was hidden from them, I swung mysslf into the branches. At this instant, three or four wild pigs, s'artled by

the intrusion, scurried away in different directions through the brushwood, cracking and breaking the undergrowth before them, which, my pursuers hearing, and thinking I was still ahead, followed with renewed zeal, so that I had the pleasure of seeing them pass under me and hearing their shouts die away in the distance. Never did I quit my friendly tree until I had heard them retreating in the moonlight cursing their luck in missing me, and thus losing a goodly sum of money. What will 1 a man not do for filthy lucre ? This was the last time I put faith in my own race—the pakahas. Henceforward lam a Maori in thought, word, and deed, since among the savages I have found more true faithfulness, man to man, than in the boasted European. There is no honour in them. Their hearts arc as false as a rotten kumara. No more of them for me, their very language I abhor, and would not use it were it not to shower my maledictions on them. But enough—this is not keeping to the subject in hand. 1 revolved what ray plan of action would bo, whether to go Whangaroa or to return Tawitiwai's kainga. The former was the safest, but thfc latter was the nearest, and as I was in want of food and rest, about midnight I descended from my tree, re gained the track, and with extreme caution proceeded towards my former residence, the iron of man-hatred having entered into my heart, and only desiring a place to lay my head to end my days in seclusion and obscurity.

CHAPTEK XIV,

The day was just breaking when I reached the settlement, but everything was still except the intermittent growlings of the dogs as they saw me emerge into the clearing. None of the inhabitants ob served me arrive, or if they did so, gave no sign of it, thinking, perhaps, I might he one of the mysterious Mohcros (the earliest inhabitants of New Zealand before the Maoris came from Hawaiki), or a Patupac areke (wild man), strayed from Ms wonted mountain fastneses. I sat down on a fallen tree near the landing-place, and be-

gau to arrance my line of action to increase my influence in the tribe. I felt I must be, even more than before, a Maori in habits and actions, even iv sympathies and feel ings. 1 had my acquired accomplishments of second speaking and mesmerism to astonish the natives, but I hoped to be re garded ere long as the great tohunga, whose advice must be asked, and whose favour conciliated before any enterprise could he engaged in, and this not only by the small hapu with which I was: connected, but by the entire Ngapuhi iwi or tribe. Can you blame me, reader, if I traded on supersti tion to live in ease, when it is a known fact that half the world lives upon religiously swindling the other half. Give a parson an inch and he will take an ell lias been proved before now, and upon this principle I worked the Maori.

No man could have been more surprised than was Tawitiwai when he saw me sitting at the landing-place. He appeared from his greeting to be uncertain whether it was not my spirit returned from Te Iteinga, as he thought when I left in the Fanny that he would see me no more. Here, then, 1 considered was an opening at once to commence establishing my influence amongst the natives. Therefore, when he would have approached and hnngicd, I motioned him to keep back and to occupy a sent at a little distance from me. After this I sat for some' time intently gazing upon the river, seemingly dead to earthly things, whilst a crowd of Maoris began gradually to assemble. Tawitiwai could not understand it; he sat open-mouthed for some time, with his eyes lixed on me. At length, with slow and deliberate accents, I commenced, " Oh, Ngapuhi, who is there amongst you that has returned from To Keigna, who hath seen the great runanga of spirits and come back to earth? None, none, none. Yet, 0 ! Ngapuhis, I have climbed again the sea - washed leaping place of soul?, after having asked admit tauce into the realms of spirits, 1 retraced niystopsfromthedarkshadcsofy/tHe-nift-^-joo (night), for it was Tui, my wife, Tui, fair as the morning—that drove mo away, toll iug mo I must return to you and be your tohunga, that you might not be left with out, a mediator between you and the gorls. Thus, Oh ! Ngapuhis, am I come, and as witness of the truth of my mission, let the Tuniwlttt, who hah followed me hither, and now lieth iv hi* gloomy cave beneath the river, bear testimony to my words. Im mediately, a deep voice, seemingly from the very ground beneath us, replied ! "Hear him, Oh! Ngapuhis, for Ms worth are the words of truth." The Maoris were thunder struck —a geat fear seized them; they seemed to consider that I had power over them since I had power over the monsters of the deep. Even Tawitiwai came to mo now with great humility, and desired to know what house I would have. I told him I should again resume possession of the house I had previously iuhabited, and to get its present occupants out as quickly as possible. The kainga had received an addition of about seventy men, women, and children «ince I loft, and was, therefore, now a larco place. I need not Ray that my former household was completely broken up. My wives had been given to other husbands, and the little patch of cultivation I had had round the house wns let go to ruin. However, both these were evils very easily cured— the one by demanding any female I might fancy, who was unmarried, for who would despise an alliance with a tohunga and also sipakcha; the other, by a little work and the assistance of the women of the tribe (for they were the worker?, the men attend ing only to fishing and to war). Having gnt these preliminaries arranged, I settled down. a.s 1 fondly hoped, to a life of ease and quietness. But no, it seemed as if from the cradle to the grave I was to he the football of fate, for the missionaries having formed a station on the Kori-Kcri, a little way from our kainga, were unceasing in their efforts to prove to the natives I was an imposter, in which I must add they en tirely failed; .also, Hongi had returned from England, which, with Waikato chief of the Aikutu', and brother of Ruatara, he had visited, being accompanied also by Mr Kendall. They were greatly patronised at Home both by royalty and nobility, but this was not what Hongi wanted. He wished arms and ammunition to settle a long standing quarrel between the Ngapuhis and the Ngatiwhatuas of Kaipara. Hongi was the son of Te Hotete, chief of Te Tuhuna, near Kaikohe, of the Ngatitautahi hapu, descendants of Rihiri, a great ranga lira. Te Hotete had five wives, from one of whom, Tuhikura, was Hongi horn. In youth he was of a very peaceable disposi tion, industrious, and skilful in carviug,

residing chiefly at Oluuatope, near Wai mate, and in the fishing, season at Kerikeri. It was the (juarrel between his own tribe, the Ngapulu, and the Ngatiwliatuas that really inspired him with a thirst for blood shed. The take, or cause of quarrel, was as follows: —Hongi had a sister named Kararu, a very beautiful woman, whom Pokaia, the grandfather of Hone Heka, the hereof Kororareka ilagstall', fell deeply in love with and desired to marry. Slie, how ever, had conceived a mortal dislike to him, and to put an end to the persistent wooing of her suitor, married Tahere, an old chief ff r whom she had no affection or regard. Pok,ai», maddened by this, and desiring to forget the stings of disappointed love in the tumult of war, suddenly recollected that uiu (compensation) was still unobtained from Taoho; chief of Kaihu, of the Ngati whatua tribe. Accordingly he marched for the Wairoa river, and killed about twenty of the unsuspecting; natives. Taoho, .of course, had to make a return raid, and at Mataraua, near Kaikohe, killed a similar number of his enemies as blood-money. Again the Ngapuhis marched against the Ngatiwhatuas, and at Mongonui, on the west coast, in a moonlight battle, gdned a success over them. But this did not satisfy Pokaia, therefore on his return home he induced the Ngapuhis to go again in greater force against the Ngatiwhatua, hoping as he had a band of five hundred men under his leadership, to gain an easy victory. But the luck was changed, Ngatiwhatua were too strong for the invaders, and in flicted on them, at Otamatea, a signal defeat, killing about 200 of them, and having a grand feast on their bodies. Many great Ngapuhi chiefs fell, such as Pokaia, Ti, Tohi, Te Waikeri, and others. Such a disgrace could not be overlooked, and as Hongi was now the head of the Njrapuhi tribe, he determined to go to England, get arms and ammunition, and thoroughly destroy the victorious Ngatiwhatuas. How he>ucceeded our story wiil tell. Suffice it to say in the words of Hinalri, of To tarn, whom he ate with, sailed with, slept with, " Hongi went to the land of the pakfhas in peace, he returned a demon of war."

(To he Continued).

Ambassadors and their Bights.

The position of an Ambassador was not always quite such a safe one as it is nowa days. Our Henry VIII. wanted to send Homier, the bishop, as Ambassador to Franco with a threatening message to Francis I. Bonner objected that it might cost him his head to ntter a defiance couched in such terms. "If they harm you," said Henry, "I'll make many French heads fall for yours." " May it please your Grace," answered Bonner, " but I doubt whether any heart would fit my shoulders quite so well as my own." More than a ccutury later Cromwell hanged a Portuguese Envoy for a murderjcoinniitted in London. Apparently, however, he was not a regular Ambassador, Possibly if he iiad been it would not have made much diftorence. Ambassadors and their servants were declared exempt from civil procedure in the reign of Queen Anne ; an Act of Parliament having been passed to that effect in consequence of a slight offered to the Minister of the Czar. Peter the Great was naively astonished because everyone concerned in the business wjis not hanged. French became the recognised language of diplomacy about the middle of the seventeenth century, though it had be gun to assume that position much earlier. Dr Dale, Elizabeth's Ambassador at a certain conference, asked in what language the discussions were to be held. "French," decided the representative of Spain: "you known your mistress styles herself Queen of Fiance." "If it comes to that," politely suggested Dale, " hadn't we better talk rfebrew ? Your master, you know, is King of Jerusalem." Cromwell, with his usual pugnacity, protested against the use of French in the international cor respondence. "I will have nothing but Latin or English," said the Protector. English was <mt of the question, there being probably less than one hundred persons out of the British Isles who understood our tongue. But Latin— the mediaeval language of diplomacy —was conceded. It was during the Commonwealth that an Italian ecclesiastic, sent to London on a temporary mission, bitterly exclaimed that there was only one man in this barbarous country who could speak Latin, and he was blind. Milton was Latin secretary at a salary of £288 a year, afterwards cut down to £200 when he rc -1 quired the services of an assistant. French retained its formal ascendancy till the Congress of Berlin, in 1878, when it was decided that cither English or French might be spoken. The English Plenipotentiaries spoke m their own language. Indeed, Lord ISeaconsficld cannot speak French with fluency. The Congress was held in the capital of the German empire, and presided over by a German statesman — perhaps the most arrogant as well as the ablest that his country has ever, produced; yet no one ventured to claim for German equal honours with English and French.— Fall Mall Gazette.

Young Love's Dream.

Shu was a real pretty broad and butter, peaches and cream kind of a green country girl, and she almost broke the hearts of the clerks in the Post-oiHce when she •amc up to the window and asked to buy a postage stamp. •'Ah," saicl Osonr, with a smile of kill ing variety, as he noticed she had a yellow envelope in her hand, " why not buy a plain white stamped envelope ?"' "I don't want a stamped envelope," she simpered, ul want a stamp." "0, very well, Miss, but you know stamped envelopes are all the rage now." " I don't care, I want a stamp." " Well, you are just too utterly utter. Won't you tell me why you want the stamp?" and the young man wrapped a smile around his face like a sheet around a ghost. " You won't tell anybody ?" " No, of course not." "Nobody?" " No," " Well, then—tc-he—te-hc," she laughed, "you See my beau he don't like stamped envelopes. He lives away out in Colorado, and he says foe never gets to see me, but if I lick the stiamp and stick it on he can take it off and dfiow it, and it is the next thing to kissinrfine." Then she blushed and looked teased, and Oscar got so red in the face thai'iic gave her a stamp and seven cents clmnge for a three cent piece.



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