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the place he would kill him. By this time Te Euru and 

 Whakatupu had taken off their clothes and were in the water, 

 sitting concealed among the raupo flags. Whakatupu was 

 armed with a tomahawk; the other man had an oneioa, or 

 stone club. The canoe came on towards the landing-place, 

 and on nearing it they detected the heads of the two men 

 among the bulrushes. The man in the stern of the canoe 

 called out to the other to shove out again. But Whakatupu 

 was too quick for them, and seizing the bows of the canoe, 

 began to haul it in. The man at the bow standing up in the 

 canoe dealt a blow at Whakatupu's head with his paddle. He 

 parried the blow with his tomahawk, and then struck at his 

 assailant in return, as it were flinging the tomahawk at him. 

 It was not a very long-handled tomahawk, but a rather short 

 one, reaching to about the waist. It cleaved the man's head 

 open, and then fell into the water, the man also tumbling 

 overboard quite dead. When the man at the stern saw this 

 he jumped into the water and dived, coming up again out 

 there in a line with the Maori hut standing yonder above the 

 landing-place. Then the men on shore ran over to watch 

 the landing-place, and they discovered the fugitive crouching 

 low and making his way through the sedge and brushwood. 

 Then Aperahama took the gun from Porokoru's hands, fol- 

 lowed the man, and shot him ; so there was an end of him 

 also. As soon as the people in the pa heard the report of the 

 gun they were on the alert ; so also were the various sections 

 of the war-party hiding in the bush. As soon as they heard 

 it they were all astir. Te Tipi at once swam out from Pao- 

 paororo — that is the spot there opposite to us, where I made 

 a clearing in 1883 — I mean that point running out there in a 

 line with the island. That spot was then, as now, covered 

 with low bush, tawa, hinau, mapou, and other trees. Swim- 

 ming out from that point, Te Tipi reached the island, and he 

 kept firing his gun as he swam. This was one of the bravest 

 warriors of the Ngatihuia and Ngatitoa. He had his cartouche- 

 box around his neck ; with his hands he kept reloading and 

 firing his gun, whilst he used his legs for swimming. By the 

 time Tipi reached the Papaitonga island the enemy had already 

 fled, and were making for the shore in their canoes. However, 

 he at once jumped into a canoe that had been left behind, and 

 went in pursuit. When the canoes reached the shore the 

 various sections of the war-party in the bush combined to 

 attack them, and when they attempted to land at another 

 point they were attacked again. Here and there a man who 

 was swift of foot escaped, but the bulk were shot. All the 

 chiefs were killed — Takare, Paipai, and all the other chiefs of 

 the tribe. The dead numbered three hundred twice told, 

 perhaps more, and included the women and children. As for 



