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bearance of the officer in command, Colonel Macleverty, 
also effected more, perhaps, than our arms : he showed the 
natives we had no desire to fight with them, but only to 
defend our settlers against their attacks, and thus the kindly 
feeling between the two races was not destroyed. To prove 
their good feeling, of their own accord they returned some 
of the stolen cattle, and then demanded the bodies of the 
murderers, which being given up, they returned most of the 
remaining cattle, and since that period have lived peaceably. 
A brief account may here be added of the murderer, who 
escaped — Eangi irihau. Some time afterwards I met him up 
the river, but he was so altered that at first I could not 
recognize him. I asked his name, he laughed, and said it 
was Taniwa ; when I found who he was, I spoke to him of 
the crime he had committed, and told him although he had 
escaped the hand of man, he could not flee from that of 
God, and therefore I urged him to pray to God for His 
forgiveness ; he laughed at what I said, I felt deeply grieved 
at his hardness of heart, and bid him remember my words. 
Some years afterwards I went to Tawitinui, the teacher told 
me Eangi irihau was there, and at the point of death. I 
went to see him, and shall never forget the sight ; it was 
winter, there was a white frost on the ground ; I found him 
in an old cultivation, some little distance from the pa, laid 
under a miserable little shed not much more than six feet 
long by four wide, open on all sides ; close to him was a 
wretched little fire, and his all but naked body Was covered 
with sores from burns, evidently from almost touching the 
embers for warmth, he had only a miserable remnant of a 
mat on, near was a little basket with some small potatoes, 
such as are given to pigs ; his color was that of the ground, 
and his countenance of an emaciated old man, though not 
much more than twenty-three or four years old. I inquired 
if he remembered what I had said to him when I last saw 
him, that there was no fleeing from the hand of God ; yes, 
he said, he had never forgotten my words, and had been con- 
stantly crying to God for mercy ; I asked if he prayed and 
read his Bible, he pointed to twp books by his side, which 
