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TAPOUKA AND TUHAWAIKI. 
and destroy it, being a more powerful tribe than his own ; he 
dressed np some of his men in seal skins, and sent them into 
the vicinity of the enemy,, carefully planting his men in ambush 
inland, sufficiently near to command a view of what was 
going on, the natives, unsuspecting the snare, saw these 
pretended seals sporting about in the breakers, and came out 
to catch them ; when the whole tribe was thus drawn out, 
and whilst intent on their supposed game, out rushed Old 
Wig and his tribe, and cruelly massacred them ; some fled 
to a neighbouring island, to which they were pursued, and 
there killed in the caves where they sought to conceal them- 
selves ; my informant saw their bones still remaining, a 
monument of this cruel adventure. 
Tapouka died of the measles about 1833. He was related 
to another great Chief named Tuhawaiki, or Bloody Jack, 
one of the principal men of the Ngai tahu, and a great 
supporter of the whalers, through whom he became pos- 
sessed of considerable wealth; in imitation of the Governor 
of New South Wales, where he had repeatedly been, he kept 
a number of men drilled and clothed in old uniforms, which 
the Governor had given him ; and when any Europeans 
visited him, these were duly drawn out and paraded before 
them ; he also had a vessel of his own, which was commanded 
by one of his European friends ; he made common cause with 
the whalers in all their quarrels, whilst they, in return, lent 
their aid, and thus enabled him to obtain the mastery over 
the neighbouring tribes. 
Tute ounguku, the son of Tama hara nui, invoked the aid 
of Bloody Jack to revenge the death of his father, who was 
murdered by Te Bauparaha, that Chief was surprised by him, 
and nearly all his party cut off, he himself had a very narrow 
escape of falling into his hands, he fled in a canoe, to lighten 
wffiich he threw twenty men, women, and children, into the 
sea. Tuhawaiki lost his life in returning from the Kaikoura 
in an open boat, in company with a young Chief named 
Kopi, who was in another ; he took an inner passage in the 
dark, and was capsized in the surf, and although his com- 
panion was called to come to his aid, h^ most unfeelingly 
