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MANIETERA AND KEREOPA. 
was sealed with black wax. Mr. Chapman wrote back to 
me ; and did the same. Manihera remarked, this is a sure 
sign of death for us, nevertheless Grod^s will be done. On 
reaching Wairewarewa, there was a funeral just going to 
take place, and Manihera was invited to read the service, 
which he did, remarking he should soon want some one to 
perform the same office for himself. 
They then went on to Motutere, there they were advised 
to go to Pukawa, where Iwikau te Heuheu would give them 
a kind reception, and were told to be satisfied with having 
come thus far, for the tribe they were so desirous of visiting 
was a very wicked one, and would not attend to them, but 
most probably put them to death. Manihera replied, that 
the great object for which they came was to preach the 
Gospel to the wicked, and therefore the reason he gave why 
they should not go, was the very one to confirm their intention ; 
they answered, well, then, you go with your eyes open to the 
consequences ; they preached at Motutere, thence they visited 
Waimarino, and went on to Waiariki ; there they again 
received a hearty welcome ; Manihera preached to them in 
a very solemn strain, which deeply affected his hearers, and 
in the morning said he felt that his time was at hand, and 
that before the sun set he should be an inhabitant of another 
world, that during the night he had been in the Reinga and 
met many of his deceased friends, who told him he should 
soon be with them. 
A small party of young men, about ten or a dozen, accom- 
panied these two devoted men on their way, for Waiariki was 
the very next place to Tokanu, the residence of Herekiekie, 
and the tribe they were going to visit. 
Their coming was known to the inhabitants of the pa, and 
bearing in remembrance the death of their relatives at Wai- 
totora, and their duty of avenging them, Huia-tahi, chiefly 
at the instigation of the widow of Tauteka, went with a small 
party, and laid in wait for them ; they concealed themselves 
in a thicket by the road they were to pass, and suffered the 
young men of Waiariki to go on before, for all were walking 
in single file, the usual custom, the native roads not allowing 
