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MANIHERA AND KEREOPA. 
were coming with a party of three or four hundred men to 
avenge the death of Manihera. Te Heuheu received us with 
every demonstration of joy, and after the usual tangi, or 
crying, was concluded, he addressed us in a very long 
speech : he said that the great and lofty had fallen, and that 
all was dark on their account, he bade us welcome, what- 
ever might be the object of our coming— whether to cover 
up, or uncover, the crime ; he said, this land has been 
polluted with blood from the time of our first ancestors to 
this day ; my brother, my child, my father Te Teira, wel- 
come ! Go you to Huiatahi, you are strong : I cannot ; 
donT say I conceal my thoughts.” I told them this was 
my second visit on account of the dead ; first for Te Heuheu, 
and now I came for Manihera and Kereopa : the falling of a 
mountain had crushed the one, but the others had been 
basely murdered, when they only came as messengers of 
peace : that Heuheu did not gain his rank by murder — he 
was too noble to use such means : that if a tribe thus sought 
to prosper, it was as if a man were to expect his house to 
stand firm though built on a bog ; I was indeed grieved — - 
not for Manihera and his companion, for they were happy, 
and had received their reward, but that any could be guilty 
of such a crime ; they had heard a rumour of our coming with 
several hundred men to avenge their deaths : I had indeed 
come, and they beheld my party ! our only weapon was the 
Word of God ! we came, not to avenge, but to make peace 
— judgment we left with God ; I was not sorry for the indig- 
nation which the natives of the other side of the lake had 
shown against the murderers— for the dead were their guests, 
and they were murdered in their presence : had they not 
shown their abhorrence at the deed, I should have thought 
they had connived at it ; but we came to make an end of the 
quarrel, and the terms were, that peace must now be made 
with the Nga ti ruanui — as it had been purchased with the 
blood which was shed. 
About an hour’s pull on the morrow brought us to Tokanu. 
We passed by the mournful scene of Te Heuheu* s glory and 
destruction : the grass had not yet grown over the common 
