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the rest, the treaty was not worth the paper on which it was written.

"The Maoris from the first exhibited a great desire for education. They
established numerous schools in their own districts and villages; in
most cases accepted nominally if not really the Christian religion, and
studied history with a good deal of intelligence. Some of them read that
the Romans conquered England by making roads everywhere through the
island, and the natives therefore determined that no roads should be
constructed through their lands, and every attempt on the part of
government to carry roads beyond the lands it had bought from them was
resisted so firmly and angrily that the attempt had to be abandoned. The
natives were well enough aware that behind the despised settlers was the
power of England, and that if necessary a numerous army could be sent
over, but they relied absolutely upon their almost impassable swamps,
their rivers, forests, and mountains.

"Here they thought they could maintain themselves against any force that
might be sent against them, and relying upon this they became more and
more insolent and overbearing, and for some time before the outbreak in
1860 every one saw that sooner or later the storm would burst, and the
matter have to be fought out until either we were driven from the island
or the natives became thoroughly convinced of their inability to oppose
us.

"At first the natives had sold their land willingly, but as the number
of the European settlers increased they became jealous of them, and
every obstacle was thrown in the way of land sales by the chiefs.
Disputes were constantly arising owing to the fact that the absolute
ownership of land was very ill defined, and perhaps a dozen or more
persons professed to have claims of some sort or other on each piece of
land, and had to be individually settled with before the sale could be
effected. When as it seemed all was satisfactorily concluded, fresh
claimants would arise, and disputes were therefore of constant
occurrence, for there were no authorities outside the principal
settlements to enforce obedience to the law.

"Even in Auckland itself the state of things was almost unbearable.
Drunken Maoris would indulge in insolent and riotous behaviour in the
street; for no native could be imprisoned without the risk of war, and
with the colonists scattered about all over the country the risk was too
great to be run. In addition to the want of an