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TE RAUPARAHA AND RANGIHAEATA. 
would have taken them for man and wife rather than a 
doomed captive with his implacable enemy, she used even to 
clothe him in her finest garments, and deck his head with 
choice feathers ; this continued for about two weeks, until 
either she had assembled her friends, or thought her victim 
sufficiently fat for killing, she then suddenly caused him to 
be seized and bound, with his arms stretched to a tree, and 
whilst in that position, took a spear, a long narrow rod of 
iron, with which she stabbed him in the jugular artery, and 
drank his warm blood as it gushed forth, placing her mouth 
to the orifice ; he was afterwards cooked and eaten. 
Stewart received twenty-five tons of flax for this infamous 
service, the price of blood, and might have had more, but 
he would not stay for it ; a captain of some vessel, then also 
at Kapiti, who is said to have been but little better, sailed 
before him, and carried the news to Sydney, so that on his 
arrival there, he was shunned, and styled by all — the Cap- 
tain of the bloody Elizabeth ; he was even taken up and 
tried, from want of evidence, however, or from some flaw 
in the indictment he escaped, but though human vengeance 
did not reach him. Divine justice did, nothing was heard of 
him afterwards, the vessel was supposed to have foundered on 
its way to Valparaiso, and all on board to have perished. 
Tuteounuku, the son of Tamai hara nui, too weak to contend 
with Te Rauparaha alone, went to the great Chief of the Ngai- 
tahu, commonly called Bloody Jack, and solicited his aid to 
punish the murderers of his parents ; the Chief thought so good 
a pretext for war should not be neglected ; a large force was 
therefore speedily raised, and a suitable opportunity soon 
occurred, when Rauparaha was busily engaged snaring 
the putangi tangi (Paradise ducks) at Kaparatehau Lake, 
with a party of his tribe, having all their canoes drawn 
up high on the beach, except one ; the enemy came upon 
them so suddenly, that it was with the greatest difficulty 
Rauparaha and about forty men, women, and children es- 
caped to the canoe, and pushed off, all the rest were slain ; 
but being encumbered with so many, they made little way. 
Rauparaha, therefore, compelled about half the number to 
