Iwikau.

Iwikau, his brother, urged the same arguments, saying that he was himself at the Bay of Islands when Captain Hobson first arrived; that the Ngapuhi Natives received His Excellency with suspicion, having been told that his object was to deprive them of their lands, which occasioned the movements of Government to be watched with jealousy and suspicion; and that the disasters that have happened since were the natural result. He had frequently advised other tribes not to encourage the settlement of any Europeans amongst them, excepting traders, who brought them blankets and tobacco in exchange for their productions, and never troubled them for land; but that he and his brother had, notwithstanding, been imposed upon by one who had taken several pigs from them without payment, for which he would have satisfaction from some European traveller passing that way. This was one reason why he had not more strenuously prohibited the robberies on the settlers at Whanganui. The chiefs along the coast might very properly have settled amongst them….