CHARACTER OF THE WARRIOR, HONGI. HQ 
moment arrived in the Bay, established a perma- 
nent peace, which has not since been interrupted. 
Other battles, of a very destructive character, 
have taken place; the whole tribes have been 
swept away, as it were with the besom of de- 
struction. Hongi^ destroyed the tribe living at 
Wangaroa (the people who cut off the crew of the 
Boyd) ; and this was nearly the last of this most- 
warlike man’s expeditions. When he was living, 
he had only to lift up his voice for war, and the 
people, as with one heart, would rally round his 
standard, and place themselves under his guidance 
and direction. Since his death, which happened 
in March 1828 , and which was caused by a ball 
passing through his lungs (after which, however, 
he lingered upwards of thirteen months), no mas- 
ter-spirit has arisen to guide the people — no com- 
mander has been found, whose influence and talent 
would bear a comparison with his ; and the dif- 
ficulty of assembling the different tribes for a 
general war-expedition has been very great. No 
one dared to refuse when Hongi called :|if he did, 
he was certain to suffer most severely for his re- 
fusal. But now, the war-cry may go round the 
Bay, from house to house, and from village to 
village, and none answers to the call. It is with 
the utmost difficulty that a sufficient number can 
be raised to go out to war, beyond their own im- 
mediate district, lest they should be met by a 
* This name has, in former publications, been written 
Shunghee. — Ed. 
