238 EFFECTS OF COLONIZATION, ETC. of the tribes generally. These principles, if acted upon by the New Zealand government, and combined with a moderate but sufficient display of force, and with the speedy introduction of numerous bodies of settlers, will not fail to render New Zealand as prosperous and as peaceable as any portion of the British empire. That the New Zealanders are endowed with strong capacities, is clearly indicated by the comparatively ad vanced state of civilization to which they have already attained. I have elsewhere noticed the large numbers of them that have learned to read and write, nor will they remain long ignorant of the secrets of money-making ; in proof of which, a native of Port Nicholson, by his in fluence among his countrymen, obtained an absolute mo nopoly of pigs, potatoes, and agricultural produce, which he resold to the Company’s settlers at his own price. One New Zealander has risen to the responsible situation of chief officer of a whaling ship, and has acquired the reputation of unusual skill and good conduct in the dis charge of his duties. Colonel Wakefield, the Reverend Mr. Marsden, and other gentlemen of intelligence, have expressed a very favourable opinion regarding the natural intelligence of the New Zealanders, and of their becoming proficients in various departments of industry. Through out these chapters, numerous instances are recorded from which the same conclusion will be derived. Not only, then, as the original inhabitants and owners of the soil, but as thinking and reasoning men, these people possess the strongest claims upon the attention and the protection of the British Government.