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heads they had cut off. The engagement had not lasted many 

 minutes when the enemy began to retreat, and were pursued 

 by our party through the woods. In a short time om* party 

 returned victorious, bringing along with them many prisoners. 

 One of our chiefs had been shot by Shungie, and the body 

 was brought back, and laid upon some mats before the huts. 

 The name of this chief was Ewanna. He was one of those 

 who were at the taking of our vessel. There were, besides 

 Ewanna, five other chiefs killed on our side, whose names 

 were Nainy, Ewarree, Tometooi, Ewarrehuru, and Erow. On 

 the other side three chiefs were killed — namely, Charley, 

 Shungie's eldest son, and two sons of Mootyi, a great chief of 

 Sukyanna." 



After tliis the party left Kipara in a number of canoes^ 

 and proceeded down the river to a place called Shaurakke (or 

 Showrackee), from whence they returned to their respective 

 homes. It was only a few days after their return that a vessel 

 was announced off Tokamardo. It was arranged that Euther- 

 ford should go on board first to throw the captain off his guard, 

 that the natives might the more easily seize the ship and 

 murder the crew. As soon, however, as Eutherford had gone 

 on board he w^arned the captain of his danger, persuaded him 

 to put to sea again at once, and to take him with him. Thus, 

 Eutherford says, he made his escape on the 9th Januar}', 

 1826, after he had been ten years on the island all but two- 

 months. 



The narrative an outline of which I have now given is 

 illustrated by many details of the manners and customs of 

 the people, which are told in such a way as to leave a favour- 

 able impression on the reader and uo enlist his sympathy. 

 The bay which is mentioned as the scene of the capture of 

 the " x4gnes " is placed some distance south of. the East 

 Cape. The short description given of it does not fix the 

 locality decisively, nor yet does the statement that the vessel 

 came to anchor " off' the termination of a reef of rocks imme- 

 diately under some elevated land which formed one of the 

 sides of the bay." The writer of the book to which I am 

 indebted for the narrative, comparing this description with 

 that of Poverty Bay given by Captain Cook, concludes with- 

 out hesitation that this is the place intended, and his con- 

 clusion is accepted by other writers. The name Tokamardo, 

 however, suggests at once the bay, about tliirty-five miles 

 from the East Cape, which is called by the natives Toko- 

 maru, and answers fairly to the description given in the 

 narrative. The position, too, assigned to Aimy's village suits 

 this locality, and there can be little doubt that Tokomaru, and 

 not Poverty Bay, is the place intended. But it matters little 

 which of the two we decide upon when we find that the 



