When he was wounded they were plundered, as he himself was more than once when misfortune befel him.

In the wars of Te Waharoa, the mission-stations of Rotorua and Matamata were stripped, but no blood was shed.

The Wesleyans set up again at Hokianga.

Everywhere the teachers were allowed to preach, to intercede, to protest.

At last, in 1838, the extraordinary spectacle was seen of Rauparaha's son going from Kapiti to the Bay of Islands to beg that a teacher might come to his father's tribe; and accordingly, in 1839, Octavius Hadfield, afterwards primate, took his life in his hand and his post at a spot on the mainland opposite to the elder Rauparaha's island den of rapine.