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HONGI. 
though the inhabitants were warned by one saying, Kiatu- 
pato, they trusted the insidious foe ; that night the pa was 
taken, and one thousand of the nga-ti-maru killed. In 
1822, he again visited the Thames, and sailing up the Ta- 
rn aki attacked and carried two pas, Mauinena and Mokoia, 
which were situated close to each other near Panmure ; 
many were slain and some fled, then dragging his canoes 
over the Otahuhu Isthmus, crossing the Manukau, he again 
drew them from the Waiuku into the Awaroa ; one of his 
great canoes was stopped by a sudden bend in the narrow 
stream, he had therefore to dig a direct channel for it to 
proceed which still remains ; ascending the Waikato and 
Waipa, he reached Mataki taki, where many had fled for 
fear of him, the pa was stormed, and as he entered on 
one side the poor natives fled by the other, men, women, 
children, all rushed down the steep parepare, and falling 
into it by the pressure of those behind, the trench was 
literally filled up with their bodies, a thousand were said 
to have there perished; from the Waipa, Hongi penetrated 
nearly as far as the Wanganui; in this expedition he slew 
fifteen hundred of his enemies. 
In 1823, he attacked Rotorua, conveying his canoes by 
water as far as possible, and then dragging them by a road 
he had cut through the forest to the lake ; here again he 
was victorious, and slew many. He continued every year 
his hostile raids, first to one part and then another, always 
with success, his name spread terror wherever he went ; in 
fact, he became the Napoleon of New Zealand, and declared 
when remonstrated with by the Missionaries, that he would 
not desist until he had subjected the entire island to his 
control ; that as England had but one King, so likewise 
there should be only one in New Zealand ; but as there is a 
bound to all human glory, “ Hither shalt thou go and no 
further/* so it was with Hongi, he fulfilled the Scripture : 
u He that taketh the sword, shall perish by the sword/' 
In 1827, he declared war against Tara, better known by 
the name of George, given him by the sailors, he was the 
chief of the tribe which massacred the crew of the Boyd , 
