Chapter XIV.
Trading in the Old Times — The Native Difficulty — Virtue its own Reward — Rule Britannia — Death of my Chief — His Dying Speech — Rescue — How the World goes Round [165]
Chapter XV.
Mana — Young New Zealand — The Law of England — "Pop goes the weasel" — Right if we have Might — God save the Queen — Good Advice [174]
History of the War in the North of New Zealand against the Chief Heke [181]
INTRODUCTION.
In the good old times of Conquest and Colonization (I like to be particular about my dates and places), the civilized nations of the day followed a simple policy in regard to the savage races with whom they came in contact, which may be roughly described as going their own way, and punishing the natives if they didn't conform to it, without troubling themselves much about what the aforesaid natives thought or felt on the subject. If they understood the meaning of it so much the better for them, if they did not it could not be helped. Holding themselves to be morally and intellectually far superior to the savages, they maintained that it was the savage's business to understand and conform to their notions, and not their business to regard the savage's. As for giving savages the rights of civilized men it was seldom thought of; savages were to be treated as such.
I do not exactly know when this sort of native policy was first practised, but I know that it has lasted, with modifications, even to our day, and is to be seen in full working order in more than one part of the globe.