But with the goods spread out before them--especially the muskets--the chiefs were not to be stopped.

The Wakefields justified the transactions on the ground that population would rapidly make the ten per cent.

of the country reserved for the natives more valuable than the whole.

Gibbon Wakefield talked airily to the parliamentary committee next year of a value of 30s.

an acre, which, on a reserve of two million acres, would mean three million sterling for the Maoris! Nothing can justify the magnitude of Colonel Wakefield's claims, or the payment of fire-arms for the land.