304 ADVENTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. Chap. XV. 
" he slew my relations as he has done your wiwifwa (parent.) 
" Much blood of my family was spilt at Putikiwaranui 
" before they escaped to the 'Place of Cliffs.' Even 
*' Mawai and ^ Tu, who will not give up the land, 
" will gladly join with the Whites against Rauperaha. 
" Listen ! you and I will go into the bush with our 
" warriors, and we will rise up till we have taken 
" him, or got payment for the blood of our fathers. 
" We will stop him on his way ; or if he escape us, 
" we will pursue him. For this, I do not fear to go 
" to Rotorua or PFai/cato, whose men I have formerly 
" killed in war ; we will follow him to If^uiteinata or 
" among the Ngapulii if he escape so far. It shall 
" be the sacred war-party of our lives ; and we two 
" shall have but one heart. If I am killed first, you 
" will have your brother as well as your father to take 
" payment for. If you are killed first, my arm shall 
" be stronger when thinking of your blood as well as 
" that of my Maori relations. It is enough. I have 
" done!" 
As soon as I could speak, I thanked him sincerely 
for his offer ; but explained to him that in these cases 
White men did not take revenge themselves for the 
murder of their relations. I told him that we had the 
Queen, and laws, and governors and magistrates, and 
ships and soldiers to help them, to punish such deeds ; 
and that they would not be reduced to bringing the 
natives into fresh wars with each other. 
E Kuril listened to all this very gravely, and then 
concluded by saying, as he squeezed my hand, " Well, 
" I have spoken a true word to you. Remember it ten 
" years hence, if you should then require it, and you 
" shall find I have told no lie, but will do what I say." 
The next day a constable })rought a little further in- 
telligence. Colonel Wakefield and a party of JMagis- 
