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jump overboard, and those who refused were thrown into 
the sea by force, the canoe, thus lightened, made way, and 
though hotly pursued, escaped, and reached Kapiti ; but 
this restless Chief must have his revenge, he therefore, 
lost no time in raising a force, he visited the Nga ti awa, and 
solicited their aid, which was given, they immediately em- 
barked, and sailed for the Karaka, adjoining to which is a 
bay called Orau moa, completely shut in by the promontory 
Karaka at one extremity, and by another at the other, with 
lofty cliffs between, there Bloody Jack, with the Ngaitahu, 
were encamped; one hundred and forty of the Ngatiawa let 
themselves down the cliff, but were all cut off. In the morning 
Bloody Jack went on his way, and Te Bauparaha did not 
think proper to follow him but returned to Cloudy Bay; when 
Bloody Jack and his party embarked, the canoe of Tute ou 
nuku was capsized, and he was drowned, all the rest in it 
however were saved ; when the Chief saw them, he was so 
indignant because they could save themselves, and yet suffer 
their young Chief to be drowned, that he killed them all. 
Puoho, the Chief of Nga-ti-tama, and Priest to Te Baupa- 
raha, conducted a small party of forty, and went by the 
West Coast, instead of the Kaikoura, to war with the people 
living on that side, his road was by Waka-tu (Nelson) : he 
reached a small place, which he took, killing some and 
putting others to flight, the news of this attack was carried 
to Taiaroa, the head Chief of the place ; he and Bloody Jack 
lost no time in going there with a party of about a hundred, 
their wish was not to kill Puoho, for whom they had a regard 
but merely to take him prisoner, and spare his men ; Puoho 
and his party slept in two houses, but he himself was outside 
in the verandah ; Taiaroa told his men to try and capture 
him alive, Puoho, however, would not yield, he fought 
bravely all night with the enemy, at last one got upon 
a house, and shot him, hitherto they had not used their 
guns, wishing to save them all alive. When this was done, 
Taiaroa pulled off his cap and threw it on the roof of the 
house to make it tapu, and said, here let the fight cease, and 
made peace, he had the head of Puoho cut off as a mokai 3 a 
