Hall and Kendall, lay missionaries, as the advance party of an experimental mission station.

Ruatara received them with open arms, and they returned to Sydney after a peaceful visit, bringing with them not only their enthusiastic host, but two other chiefs--Koro Koro and Hongi, the last-named fated to become the scourge and destroyer of his race.
At last Marsden was permitted to sail to New Zealand.

With Kendall, Hall, and King, the three friendly chiefs, and some "assigned" convict servants, he reached New Zealand in December, 1814.

With characteristic courage he landed at Whangaroa, among the tribe who had massacred the crew of the unhappy _Boyd_.

Going on shore there, he met the notorious George, who stood to greet the strangers, surrounded by a circle of seated tribesmen, whose spears were erect in the ground.
But George, despite a swaggering and offensive manner, seems to have been amicable enough.