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latter half of 1863 passed away quietly on the west coast, a few trifling brushes 'with 

 the enemy serving but to keep the garrison on the qui vivc. In March, 1864, an 

 attempt, under Major Butler, to take a pah at Kaitake, was repulsed with a loss of one 

 killed and six wounded. In April, a more serious reverse was sustained. Captain Lloyd, 

 with fifty-three men 

 of the Fifty-seventh, 

 and forty-one Mel- 

 bourne volunteers 

 under Captain Page, 

 was out foraging 

 and destroying the 

 enemy's crops at a 

 native village called 

 Ahuahu, when he was 

 surprised, and after 

 some firing his men 

 retreated in disorder, 

 leaving their dead and 

 wounded behind. The 

 casualties amounted 

 to seven killed and ten 

 wounded. When the 

 bodies of the slain 

 were recovered the}' 

 were stripped nearly 

 naked and decapitated 

 a barbarity hitherto 

 unheard of. Strangely 

 enough, this savage 

 mutilation of the dead 

 proved to be one of 

 the rites of a new re- 

 ligion that had just 

 arisen, and which was 

 destined to achieve 

 considerable notoriety 



under its name of Hanhauism,- although its votaries at first called it "Pat Marirc." 

 This religion was evolved from the inner consciousness of a native of weak intellect 

 named Te Ua, who either believed, or pretended, that he had received a revelation from 

 the Angel Gabriel. After pondering over the various religious beliefs with which he 

 was acquainted, he compounded a curious jumble of the leading forms of Christianity. 

 Judaism and Paganism, gave it a name, and promulgated among its distinctive tenets 

 fn-c love, 'disregard of the Sabbath and the Scriptures, hostility to Europeans, angelic 

 guidance for its believers, and invulnerability in battle by the utterance of the magical 



AN INCIDENT AT THE GATE " PAH. 



