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but who used to share the chiefs couch whenever he 
took her from one whaler in order to enhance her price 
to another i who would pay him better for a temporary 
wife. They said it was only on his visit to Cloudy 
Bay before going to ff^airau, that he had thus taken 
her away from one of their number, and that he had 
not yet found a bargain to suit him. 
I know to a certainty, that the permanent and 
tapued wife of JRangihaeata, whom I have often seen 
at his residence in Mana and at Kapiti, was not killed 
at Wairau ; because I saw her at Otaki many months 
afterwards. How many temporary wives this chief 
may have had, wherewith to supply the whaling 
stations, I will not pretend to count. 
It is also certain that Te Kongo was not the 
daughter of Rauperaha. She may have been some 
relation; as I have already explained, the terms " father" 
and " child" are used very loosely by the natives to in- 
dicate members of an older or younger generation. 
I must also mention, that E Ahu and various other 
natives told me that Rangihaeata had used another 
and less excusable argument to persuade Rauperaha 
that the White chiefs should be killed. When he saw 
the nine or ten dead bodies of the labourers who had 
been shot in fair fight, he said to Rauperaha, " We 
" shall be sure to be killed for this, some day ; the 
" White people will take utu ; let us then have some 
" better blood than that of these tutua (common men). 
" We are chiefs ; let us kill the chiefs and take utu 
" beforehand for ourselves." And the insult to the 
remains of the one whom they considered the greatest 
chief among the White party seems to confirm this 
report. 
Had a Coroner's inquest been held on the bodies, 
many of these qualifying circumstances would probably 
