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and Isaac Smith, killed or massacred ; Richard 
Warner, escaped. 
Boatmen — Thomas Pay, killed or massacred ; Samuel 
Goddard, Abraham Vollard, John Kidson, George 
Bampton, and Wm. Burt, escaped. 
Men engaged on the Surveys — H. Richardson, Thomas 
Hannam, W. Chamberlain, James Grant, Richard 
Peanter, Wm. Morrison, Joseph Morgan, and John 
Miller, escaped ; Robert Crawford and John Smith, 
wounded ; Wm. Clanzey, John Burton, and Thomas 
Ratcliffe, killed or massacred ; Henry Wray, escaped. 
Lord Stanley, in his letter to Governor Fitzroy 
after the reception of this evidence in England, thus 
follows the example of Police Magistrate Macdonogh 
in stating what does not appear in the depositions. 
He says : — 
" Most calamitously, the commencement of the 
" conflict was signalized by the death by a gunshot 
" wound of a woman who was the wife of one of the 
" chiefs, and the daughter of the other ; she fell a 
" victim to conjugal affection, in the attempt to shelter 
" her husband's life, at the imminent peril of her own. 
" Her death was avenged by him and her father, in 
" the slaughter of the prisoners they had made." 
From what authority the noble Secretary of State 
for the Colonies derived this pathetic episode I know 
not ; but I will follow his example in relating some 
facts connected with the same occurrence, which are 
not in the depositions. 
Dr. Dorset, who accompanied the Magistrates to 
Cloudy Bay for the purpose of attending any wounded 
that might be found, took some pains to inquire who 
this wife was. He was informed by the whalers, that it 
was " Te Rongo" a woman who had been in the prac- 
tice of cohabiting with them to get goods for her chief; 
