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follow. Vexed at being left behind he urged his men to hasten the fittings 
of his canoe, and as soon as they were completed he launched forth and 
sailed in quest of his friends. On the second day he saw their fires, but 
passing by them landed on a point which served to conceal his canoe, but 
from which he could watch the Ngatimamoe pa. Seeing the enemy leaving 
the shore to fish in the morning he waited till they anchored, and then, 
issuing from his retreat, charged down upon them. He succeeded in 
capturing one canoe, and having killed all on board except the chief, he 
rowed back to the place where he had last seen his comrade’s fires. They 
took him at first for an enemy and were not a little surprised when they 
recognized the very man whom they were waiting for. Seeing he had a 
prisoner, they called to ask who he was. ‘“ Tukaroua,” replied Kane. 
* He is my brother-in-law,” shouted Maru, who eame running down to the 
edge of the water with a mat* to cover him. Kane, fearing his life would be 
spared, stooped down and bit off his right ear and ate it. “ Oh! oh !” cried 
the man. “Aha,” said Kane. “Did Manawa cry out when he was struck?” 
and stooping down, he bit the other ear off. The brother-in-law seeing 
Kane's determination to retaliate Manawa’s death upon the prisoner, 
reluctantly gave him up to be eaten. 
The next day Ngai Tahu laid seige to Pakihi, but its strong position 
bafiled every effort made to take it. Food failed besiegers and besieged. The 
Ngai Tahu were about to retire, when Tu te rangi apiapi who was related to 
persons in the pa, hit upon a plan for its destruction. Without divulging his 
design he asked permission to visit the Ngatimamoe for the ostensible 
purpose of offering conditions of peace. He was well received by the 
besieged and his visits became frequent and long continued. The Ngai Tahu 
grew impatient at the delay and wanted to know how he was to effect his 
object. ** Wait,” he said, “till a nor’wester blows, and then seize the opportu- 
nity afforded to you." When the wind blew from the desired quarter, Tu te 
rangi apiapi went as usual and seated himself in the doorway of a kauta, 
near the lower end of the pa and on the windward side. Having procured 
one of the long stones with which the women prepared the fern-root, he 
fastened one end to a piece of green flax and put the other into a fire; 
when it was red hot he watched his opportunity and slung it into the 
thatch of an adjoining house. A cry of fire soon arose. The unsuspected — 
perpetrator of the deed rushed out to assist the crowds who were trying to ` 
extinguish the flames, but in his apparent haste to pull off the burning 
thatch, he threw it in such a manner that the wind might blow it on to the 
other houses, and in a few moments the whole place was involved in the 
* If a chief wished to spare a particular prisoner he threw one of his garments over 
