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sat down, intending to deliver himself up. " This is 
poor work, Dick !" said he to one of the men passing 
him. As the natives came up, he recognised among 
them one to whom he had frequently shown acts of 
kindness ; to him he advanced with open arms. The 
native thereupon discharged his musket in the air ; but 
two others immediately seized him, and dragged him 
by the hair down the hill into a manuka bush. There, 
as was afterwards found, they despatched him with 
their tomahawks. On the second brow of the hill, 
Captain Wakefield said, " Your only chance of life is 
" to throw away your arms and lie down." He and Mr. 
Thompson and Brooks again shouted Kati ! " peace," 
and waved a white handkerchief. Besides the last- 
mentioned persons, there were present Captain Eng- 
land, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Howard, some of the con- 
stables, and a few others. Messrs. Tuckett, Barnicoat, 
and others, went off a little before. The rest fled up 
the hill in different directions, and were pursued a little 
way by some of the natives, who "had with them 
*' a dog, which they shouted to and encouraged in 
" the same manner as when they hunt pigs." The 
natives now ceased firing ; and as they came up, the 
White men delivered up their arms, at Captain Wake- 
field's order. He himself gave up a pistol to one of 
them. The whole party seem to have gone a little 
further down the hill ; where most of the natives, with 
Rauperaha and Rangihaeata, immediately joined them. 
The natives having shaken hands with the prisoners, 
who were standing in a group, loaded their guns, and 
seated themselves in a half-circle before them, the two 
chiefs occupying the extremities. Mr. Richardson, who 
had received a shot in the hip from which the blood 
flowed freely, requested Mr. Thompson to examine it ; 
which he did. The natives brandished their tomahawks 
