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hour after hour to the sound of shot and shell, 
thinking certain death awaited them. Late in the day 
the seamen, marines, and soldiers forced an entrance, 
and the pah was almost taken, when a panic seized 
our men, and they rushed pell-mell out by the breach, 
crying out that there were thousands of them there. 
The officers did their very best to rally them, but it 
was useless, and the natives, taking advantage, fired on 
them, and twenty-seven of them were killed and sixty- 
six wounded. A handsome monument has been 
erected in the old cemetery here to the memory of 
those who fell. Three miles away, at Te Ranga, 
another engagement took place, when our troops, under 
Lieut-Col. Greer, were successful. 
A year after this Hauhauism first broke out — ^a 
religion started by a native called Te Ua, who said 
he had been visited by angels who told him all 
Europeans were to be exterminated, and that those 
who believed in the new faith would be invulnerable. 
His followers, eager to test the truth of these assertions, 
promptly killed seven men ; then, under a chief called 
Titokowaru, attacked a British entrenchment near New 
Plymouth, and were defeated with a heavy loss. But 
this check did not deter them from banding together 
to attack Wanganui. Some of the hostile tribes, 
however, resisted their passage through their country, 
and in a great fight on an island called Moutuoa, 
the Hauhaus were again defeated and many taken 
prisoners. Hauhauism was practically put an end to 
on the east coast the following year, when several of 
their pahs were captured by our troops and 1000 
hostile natives taken prisoners. Among the captives 
was the chief called Te Kooti, who, with a number 
of others, was sent to the Chatham Islands ; but he 
escaped, and, though hunted down for many years, 
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