Yes my ancestor a high cheif from Mangakahia ,was on a ship with a group of other nobles who went to UK in 1863,check out his diary. I first saw the diary when i was 10 yrs of age in the possession then of the Cheif of Mataraua,Hemi Te Haara.The ship they went over on was called the Flying Foam,the clipper they came back on was the Ida Ziegler or was it the other way round? William Jenkins was a Methodist Minister who used them to make money out of them by getting them to perform haka etc and took the money and ran!He travelled in First class while the Chiefs went in steerage and had to cadge of the redcoat soldiers for worm infested biscuits!Imagine 6 months on that ship? Slop buckets and all,how he treated indigenous people!Reihana had an argument with him,one old man had a sea burial died on the voyage going over and one cheitainess went mad and ended up in an asylum in UK, because of Jenkins shonky deals as well as abandoning them to a Negro house where they stayed!The group was eventually helped out and feted by the English Aristocracy and not to mention Royalty.One child was born over there to the Pomare's and became the godson of Queen Victoria so it all turned out nicely in the end.When the party arrived back to NZ they raised money to repay Dorothea Weale who was a staunch Anglican spinster who was wealthy through Industrial revolution or her family/ She suggested they use the money to build 2 churches which are still standing to this day in Ngawha/Waimate,the first one burnt down.So this is how my ancestors were babtised Anglican,a lot of good came out of this journey.
