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   The hell-hole of the Pacific? When Edward Markham visited the Bay of Islands in 1834 he observed that thirty to five and thirty sail of Whalers come in for three weeks to the bay and 400 to 500 Sailors require as many Women', but thought that the sailors have done as much towards Civilising the Natives as the Missionaries have'. While ships' masters stocked up on food, water and timber, their crews sought alcohol and women. Alcohol was seldom short. In those days the foul-quality rum went by the name of fighting rum, so much belligerence did it brew Women were equally abundant.
     Accordrng to Belich, the sex industry was the precursor of  New Zealand's more familiar export earners, wool, gold, meat and dairy products. Prostitutes were generally low status women, pimped by the chiefs. This oldest trade sometimes involved coercion and sometimes brought disease, but the sex industry was not aU bad. At a gun for the tribe and a frock for the woman, each coupling 'represented a tenfold improvement on the yield for women's work andit was far more than any man could make'; 'sex was one industry where Maori men at 1east could snigger back'.zo
     They could do with some laughs. The Maori discovery of the wider world had begun badly In 1793 Lieutenant-Governor King had two Northland Maori, Tuki Tahua and Ngahuruhuru, kidnapped and taken to NorfolkIsland to teach convicts how to work flax, a mistake since flax preparation was women's work and beneath the dignity and knowledge of the rwo men, who were later returned home. Soon, though, Maori were shipping out aboard whalers voluntarily, eager to see the sights and to earn money Whale ship captains valued their boatmanship, strength and discipline so highly that hundreds were serving at sea between the 1820s and the 1840s. 'The natives of New Zealand are a robust and enterprising yet docile race, and . . . prove orderly and powerful seamen,' London ship owners reported.z' Maori often sailed together on the same ships and worked their way up the ranks
      becoming harpooners or even officers. One was chief mate aboard the Francis; only nationality (or race?) kept another from the master's job on the women's bailey button ugg boot Earl Stanhope. Maori quickly became a familiar sight in Sydney, where the governors put up chiefs such as Te Pahi, Ruatara and Matara. Already the New Zealand propensity to seek greener pastures in Australia was establishing itself At a gala day at Hobart in 1838 Maori made up a third of the 90 oarsmen.