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she was painted with red kokowai, with a wreath of 

 leaves round her head, and gesticulated and sang in 

 a similar manner. 



In this place there were no wounded, they had 

 been carried to the principal and most fortified pa, 

 which lies a little to the northward. This latter 

 village was very large ; it stood on a sand-hill, and 

 was well fenced in, and the houses were neatly con- 

 structed. Everything was kept clean and in good 

 order, and in this respect it surpassed many villages 

 in Europe. The population seemed to be nume^ 

 rous, and I estimated it, together with that of the 

 first-mentioned village, and a third, about a mile 

 higher up, to amount, on the whole, to 700 souls. 

 Several native missionaries, some of them liberated 

 Nga-te-awa slaves, live here ; and the natives had 

 built a large house, neatly lined with a firm and 

 tall reed, for their church and meeting-house. At 

 the time of our visit they were expecting the arrival 

 of a missionary of the Church of England from the 

 Bay of Islands, who purposed living amongst them. 



The medical aid which they had given to their 

 wounded was confined to binding the broken limbs 

 with splints made of the bark of a pine, or of the 

 strongest part of the flax-leaves, and carefully pro- 

 tecting the wounds from external injury by means 

 of hoops. Some of these bandages had been very 

 well applied. 



I went to the beach on the following day to 

 attend my wounded patients, and to visit the scene 



