the New Zealander's First Book', which George Howe printed for Marsden
at Sydney in 1815. In 1820 Thomas Kendall went to England
with some Maori chiefs, and while there helped Professor Lee, of Cambridge,
to "fix" the Maori language -- the outcome of their work being
Lee and Kendall's `Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand',
published in the same year.

Returning to New Zealand, Kendall, in 1823, left the Missionary Society
and went with his son Basil to Chile. In 1826 he came back to Australia,
and for his good work as a missionary received from
the New South Wales Government a grant of 1280 acres at Ulladulla,
on the South Coast. There he entered the timber trade and became
owner and master of a small vessel used in the business. About 1832
this vessel was wrecked near Sydney, and all on board, including the owner,
were drowned.

Of Basil Kendall's early career little is known. While in South America
he saw service under Lord Cochrane, the famous tenth Earl of Dundonald,
who, after five brilliant years in the Chilean service, was,
between 1823 and 1825, fighting on behalf of Brazil. Basil returned
to Australia, but disappears from view until 1840. One day in that year
he met a Miss Melinda McNally, and next day they were married.
Soon afterwards they settled on the Ulladulla grant,
farming land at Kirmington, two miles from the little town of Milton.
There, in a primitive cottage Basil had built, twin sons --
Basil Edward and Henry -- were born on the 18th April, 1841.
Five years later the family moved to the Clarence River district
and settled near the Orara. Basil Kendall had practically lost one lung
before his marriage, and failing health made it exceedingly difficult
for him to support his family, to which by this time three daughters