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TE RAUPARAHA AND RANGJHAEATA. 
natives in all their skirmishes, lived with them in the depth 
of the forest, and in their fastnesses ; before he left Porirua, 
(travelling at that time being stopped by the natives,) I saw 
him, having been brought before that savage Chief ; he 
expressed himself very bitterly about the conduct of Govern- 
ment, and especially alluded to the burning of a church and 
burial ground belonging to the Hutt natives ; it was indeed 
an unjustifiable and wanton act committed by a constable, 
who had no proper officer to superintend him ; he called the 
Europeans a murderous race ; he was reminded of his own 
acts, and told the Europeans were afraid to commit murder, 
from the fear of God, he said it was false ; and as for God, 
he was a god himself, and thrust out his tongue to an 
unnatural length, which quivered like a serpent's, and rolled 
his bloody eye-balls like a demon. 
A large British and native force was raised, he was 
attacked in his pa at Paua-taha-nui, and driven from it; 
thence he took up a post on a mound in the middle of the 
forest of the Horokiri Yalley, called Bemutaka. With some 
loss he was driven thence, and conducting his men along the 
heights of the mountain in depth of winter, supporting them- 
selves chiefly on joitau (cooked fern tree), he safely reached 
Poroutawao, although pursued by a very large force. The 
spot he selected was so shut in by swamps, that it was 
thought most prudent to leave him there. 
Bauparaha remained a prisoner for nearly two years. The 
writer saw him on board the Calliope , a few days after his 
being taken; he was well fed and kindly treated, and had a 
large cabin given up to him ; he appeared in good spirits, and 
did not seem to repine at his lot, in fact, he became strongly 
attached to Captain Stanley, an open jovial British sailor, 
and afterwards, when released at Auckland, he left all his 
valuables in the Captain's charge, and whenever the Calliope 
came near his residence, he showed his attachment to him 
in every way which laid in his power. The old Chief on re- 
turning to his tribe, did not feel that he had been degraded ; 
neither was there any diminution of his regard for Europeans. 
The Governor wisely gave him several handsome presents 
