TE HEUHEIT. 
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Wakarau, great Taupo Chiefs who were killed there three 
years before ; but being reasoned with, and recommended to 
make peace, he said he was known amongst the tribes as 
a Chief who could make peace as well as war; he listened 
to the advice, and returned with his war party without doing 
any injury, although the town was then in his power, and its 
inhabitants possessed no means of defence. A complaint was 
made against one of his men for stealing a poor man ; s coat ; 
at that moment the thief approached in a canoe, having 
on the stolen coat. Te Heuheu seeing him, rushed upon 
him like a tiger, threw him into the water, and held him 
under with his powerful grasp, until he was nearly drowned, 
and then pulled the coat off his back and restored it to the 
owner. In returning home, whilst ascending a path to 
a pa on the Wanganui River, he stumbled and fell on his 
face, this his followers exclaimed was an aitua or evil omen, 
and a sure sign of death. He gave another proof of his 
natural peaceable disposition by erecting a house for a neigh- 
bouring Chief, with whom he had long been at variance, this 
was one of the noblest specimens of native architecture, and 
when finished, had the expressive name given it of “ Te riri 
ha ware ware/’ the burying of anger, this was nearly his last 
work; he was visited by ministers of various denominations, 
but though all were received with great respect, he yet refused 
to give up the faith of his forefathers, and when one exhorted 
him to be a member of his peculiar Church, he is reported 
to have said, When you foreigners tell me of so many 
different roads, and each affirms his own to be the only true 
one, how can I decide ? first agree amongst yourselves which 
is the right way, and then I will consider whether I shall 
take it or not. He, however, accompanied the writer of this 
sketch to see the most lovely part of the vale in which 
he lived, and said, that shall be tajou as a residence for a 
Missionary, if one should be sent him; the principal abode of 
this Chief was at Te Rapa, a small valley afc the south-west 
corner of the Taupo Lake; his house was a long building, 
nearly forty feet in length; it resembled an eight-stalled 
stable, each compartment being occupied by one of his 
