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not to let the opportunity pass, went and intercepted a 
little boy, about ten years of age, from the rest of the 
party — took him down to his house, despatched him, 
cooked him, and ate him ; and, on Mr. Kemp’s going 
accidentally on the hill behind his house, he was asked to 
have a piece of the flesh, and so heard of the whole 
circumstance. 
Those of the Ngatiwatua who have survived live under 
the protection of some Ngapuhi chiefs, and by that 
means have been preserved, and are now daily rising into 
importance. The giving up of the Ngatiwatua by the 
W aikato, concluded a peace between the Waikato and the 
Ngapuhis; and the Waikato natives paid Hongi a friendly 
visit shortly afterwards. Meanwhile a large party of the 
Kawakawa natives, with Pomare at their head, went to 
Waikato to light, and nearly every man of them fell by 
the hands of Waikato natives ; and when the news arrived 
in the Bay, the party mentioned was still with Hongi : 
but no one dared to touch them. 
The next expedition that Hongi was engaged in 
was about 1828, with the natives of Wangaroa, 
on the east coast. It was not known what his in¬ 
tentions were when he left Waimati; he said him¬ 
self he was not going to fight unless lie was attacked. 
When he arrived there, he asked one of the tribes to 
join him; but they immediately fled towards Hokianga : 
the other, however, having a pa very strongly fortified 
by nature, fled to that, and remained a few days. It was 
with this tribe that Hongi had the grudge. On his way 
to Wangaroa, incantations were had recourse to, and the 
liver of birds was looked at, but all seemed to give evil 
omens, so that Hongi’s wife advised him not to go; but 
he was determined to proceed. After being there a day 
or two, they took away all the canoes belonging to the 
people in the pa; and two of them, disputing about 
