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December 1814 and settling there. He wrote the first book in Maori, published in 1815. By 1821 he felt it necessary to accede to local Maori demands for guns in order to ensure their continued protection of the mission, and the Church Missionary Society dismissed him in 1822 for gun dealing. Marsden visited New Zealand to dismiss him in person in 1823, after learning that he had committed adultery with a Maori woman. Kendall left New Zealand in 1825 and died in a ship sinking in Australia in

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