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excuse that he was sick, and being threatened with a flogging if he con- 
tinued his refusal, pleaded that he was a chief and should not be so treated. 
Flogged he was though. The ship arrived safely at Whangaroa, the natives 
were allowed to land, and next day returned on board to take the captain to 
see the spars; meanwhile Hori had told his people of the indignity put upon 
him. Captain Thompson, with two boats' erews, were guided by the Maoris 
some five miles from the ship up the Kaeo River, and after landing were led into 
the kahikatea bush which grows near the banks. An onslaught was made upon 
them, and every man slain. The natives, after putting on the sailors’ clothes, 
pulled down in the dusk to the ship, which they surprised—Hori answering 
the sentry's hail—except some few sailors, who took refuge in the rigging, a 
Mrs. Morley and child, a girl named Braughton, and the cabin boy. All 
on board were ruthlessly killed that night; the sailors were shot next 
morning; but the other four, who had shown compassion towards Hori 
after his flogging, were spared. They were afterwards given up to a party 
of Bay of Islands natives, of whom Tamati Waka was one, taken over 
thither, kindly treated, and put on board the first vessel bound for 
Sydney. 
Altogether seventy souls belonging to the ship perished in this sad affair, 
but more lives yet were lost in consequence of it. Unfortunately for him- 
self, Te Pahi was at Whangaroa when the tragedy took place. He sub- 
sequently asserted that he was altogether ignorant of the attack at Kaeo, 
having been at a distant part of the harbour, but hearing of the capture 
of the vessel, went on board, and did his best to prevail upon the natives to 
spare the surviving sailors, but without avail, and thereupon returned dis- 
gusted to his own place at the bay. The tidings quickly spread, and reach- 
ing the captain of a whale-ship lying at the bay, he at once put to sea. 
Shortly after, falling in off the coast with several other ships, the crews, upon 
hearing the news, determined upon revenge, and learning Te Pahi had been 
at the scene of slaughter, manning their boats, pulled in at night and 
attacked a pa, situated on a small islet opposite to Rangihoua, in which Te 
Pahi usually lived. Except Te Pahi himself and one other man, every 
native in the pa was killed, and these two were wounded, the former whilst 
swimming ashore being struck by a musket ball fired at him by a lad who 
was keeping one of the boats. Te Pahi died from the wound within a year, 
and thus Mr. Marsden lost his most powerful and trusty supporter. It” 
seems probable, judging from the partiality shown by Te Pahi to the 
pakeha, that his story was the correct one, and that he suffered owing to 
the similarity of his name to that of Horis brother, Te Puhi, who un- 
doubtedly was one of the ringleaders in the bloody affair; but it is certain 
