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In this instance the natives actually deserved the punishment they received. Captain Cook called the headland off which this circumstance occurred Cape Kidnappers. When Tayeto recovered from his fright he took a fish to Tupia, that he might offer it to his Etua. Tupia praised him, and ordered him to throw it into the sea.
Bishop Dordillon had been obliged to translate it, "Te mea e hakatika me te mea e hana mea koaha toitoi i te Etua" which might be rendered, "Belief in the works and love of a just God."
Etua, often spelled Atua, was the name of divinity among all Maori peoples, but religion was so associated with natural things, the phenomena of nature, of living things, and of the heavens and sea, that it was part of daily life and needed no word to distinguish it. Never were people less able to comprehend the creeds and formulas in which the religious beliefs of the white men are clothed.
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