HONGI. 
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Hinaki had two brothers, who were both likewise killed, 
one being nearly as noble a looking person as himself ; the 
other a youth of about twenty, their bodies were eaten, and 
their heads embalmed as trophies of victory, about one 
thousand men were slain, and three hundred cooked. and 
eaten on the battle-field, so complete was the victory, 
that the place has never since been inhabited ; it now be- 
longs to the Bishop’s college, being part of its endowment. 
Hongi then returned to the Bay, each canoe was filled with 
captives, and had several heads of their enemies placed 
at the stems and sterns by way of ornament ; Hongi had 
twenty prisoners on board his canoe, intended to be re- 
tained as slaves ; but his daughter, who had lost her 
husband in the fight, with dishevelled locks, rushed down 
to the water’s edge, as the canoe touched the shore, and 
seizing the sword presented to her father by the King’s own 
hand, jumped on board, and smote off sixteen heads of the 
poor captives, who, without a murmur, placed their necks 
over the side-board of the canoe.* Twenty more were also 
killed and eaten ; and yet the frantic woman, not thinking 
that the shade of her husband was sufficiently appeased with 
this sacrifice, went into the bush with a loaded musket, and 
there shot herself, the ball however only passing through 
her arm instead of her head, she was still alive when found, 
but determined to accompany her husband to the Reinga, 
she afterwards strangled herself. 
Hongi had no sooner finished one expedition than he pre- 
pared for another, he quickly assembled a thousand men, 
and proceeded with them to Mercury Bay, to make war 
upon the tribes of that district, ordering another army of 
two thousand more to be raised, and follow him ; success 
again attended his arms, and, flushed with victory, he next 
attacked Kaipara, where he made great slaughter. In 1821 
Hongi was at the Totara, a pa at the mouth of the Thames ; 
the place was so strong that the Ngapuhi feared to attack 
it. They pretended friendship and were admitted within, 
* An eye witness related this horrid butchery to me, — Mr. Puckey, of Kai- 
tara, one of our Catechists. 
