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TE KAUPAKAHA ANI) KANGIHAEATA. 
saying a word ; he then approached, and drew back the upper 
lip of the captive Chief, and said, those are the teeth which 
ate my father. When the Chief found he had been inveigled on 
hoard, and thus fallen into the hands of his deadly enemies, he 
sent for his wife and daughter, that, as he said, he might not go 
to the Reinga alone : they promptly obeyed, and came on board. 
During the night, Tamai hara nui strangled his daughter, 
a very beautiful girl, that she might not be a slave; and 
Stewart, horrified at this unnatural crime, without perceiving 
his own greater one, ordered the Chief to be tied up and 
flogged, which act offended even his savage captors, who said 
he was still a Chief, and not to be treated as a slave. 
The following day, Rauparaha landed his men, and after a 
brave resistance, the pa was taken, and a great number were 
slaughtered. They returned to the vessel, laden with five 
hundred baskets of human flesh, which the Captain professed 
to believe was only pork ; some say, that human flesh was 
cooked in the ship’s coppers, and it is not improbable it was 
so, as the vessel was completely in the hands of the natives; 
this, however, was denied ; at any rate, the vessel must have 
been a regular shambles of human flesh, and very offensive 
from such a quantity being on board, for they were four days 
in reaching Kapiti. On landing, the Chief Tamai hara nui 
was given up to Te Aia, the widow of Pehi, who took him, 
with his wife and sister, to her own house, giving up half to 
their use. They talked so friendly to one another, and she 
behaved so kindly to him, that a stranger would have taken 
them for man and wife rather than a doomed captive with his 
implacable enemy. She used even to clothe him in her finest 
garments, and deck his head with choice feathers ; this con¬ 
tinued for about two weeks, until either she had assembled 
her friends, or thought her victim sufficiently fat for killing. 
She then suddenly caused him to he seized and bound, with 
his arms stretched to a tree, and whilst in this position, she 
took a spear, a long narrow rod of iron, with which she 
stabbed him in the jugular artery, and drank his warm blood 
as it gushed forth, placing her mouth to the orifice; he was 
afterwards cooked and eaten. 
