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boat to invite him on board and see his cargo, he asked 
if they had any natives with them in the ship, and was 
answered, No ; they had come direct from the Bay. Tamai 
hara nui remarked a small burr (pirihahu) sticking to their 
garments, and said, How came it there, if you have come so 
far ; at last, however, he was persuaded, and fell into the 
snare, he went on board, and was taken down into the 
Captain's cabin ; the natives concealed themselves in the 
hold. When Te Hiko, the son of Pehi, entered the cabin, 
he stared fixedly at Tamai hara nui, for nearly half-an-hour, 
without saying a word ; he then approached, and drew back 
the upper lip of the captive Chief, and said, those are the 
teeth which ate my father; when the Chief found he had 
been inveigled on board, and thus fallen into the hands of 
his deadly enemies, he sent for his wife and daughter, that, as 
he said, he might not go to the B-einga alone : they promptly 
obeyed, and came on board. 
During the night, Tamai hara nui strangled his daughter, 
a very beautiful girl, that she might not be a slave ; and 
Stewart, horrified at this unnatural crime, without perceiving 
his own greater one, ordered the Chief to be tied up and 
flogged, which act offended even his savage captors, who 
said he was still a Chief, and not to be treated as a slave. 
The following day Rauparaha landed his men, and after a 
brave resistance, the pa was taken, and a great number were 
slaughtered ; they returned to the vessel, laden with five 
hundred baskets of human flesh, which the Captain pro- 
fessed to believe was only pork ; some say, that much of it 
was cooked in the ship's coppers, and it is not improbable it 
was so, as the vessel Was completely in the hands of the 
natives, this however was denied : at any rate, the vessel 
must have been a regular shambles of human flesh, and 
very offensive from such a quantity being on board, as they 
were four days in reaching Kapiti; on landing, the Chief 
Tamai hara nui was given up to Te Aia, the widow of Pehi, 
who took him, with his wife and sister, to her own house, 
giving up half to their use ; they talked so friendly to one 
another, and she behaved so kindly to him, that a stranger 
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