TuaiIn early 1817, Tuai, a young Ngare Raumati chief from the Bay of Islands, set off for England. He was one of a number of Mori who, after encountering European explorers, traders, and missionaries in New Zealand, seized opportunities to travel beyond their familiar shores to Australia, England, and Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. They sought new knowledge, useful goods and technologies, and a mutually beneficial