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Jean François Marie De Surville

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24 March 1770

Ranginui was a Ngāti Kahu chief from Doubtless Bay who was kidnapped by the French explorer Jean François Marie de Surville.

Russell Clark's painting of Samuel Marsden preaching his first sermon in New Zealand at Hohi (Oihi) Bay, Rangihoua, Bay of Islands, on Christmas Day 1814