(2, p. 59.)

It was, indeed, a lucky circumstance that the Port Nicholson tribe of natives, being at variance with another tribe whom this one somewhat dreaded, which induced the natives to part with their land to the interest of the New Zealand Company, because they were made to understand that they would then have powerful allies to defend them from the tribes they dreaded. Such considerations, with the goodly variety of warlike weapons along with the other things they received, were powerful inducements, which in themselves go far to confirm how much their success depended, at the time, as it were, on the “toss of chance.”