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Men of vice or virtue? - missionaries
Thomas Kendall established the first mission school, but he was later suspended after admitting an adulterous affair with a Maori woman.
Thomas Kendall, Hongi Hika and Waikato, 1820
The Rev. Thomas Kendall and the Māori chiefs Hongi Hika and Waikato, 1820.
Thomas Kendall with Hongi Hika
Missionary Thomas Kendall is painted with Waikato and Hongi Hika in London in 1820. In 1815 Kendall wrote the first book to be published in the Maori language.
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