TE RAUPARAHA AND RANGIHAEATA. 
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Stewart received twenty-five tons of flax for this infamous 
service, the price of blood, and might have had more, but he 
would not stay for it. A captain of some vessel, then also at 
Kapiti, who is said to have been but little better, sailed before 
him, and carried the news to Sydney, so that on his arrival 
there, he was shunned, and styled by all—the Captain of the 
bloody Elizabeth ; he was even taken up and tried ; from want 
of evidence, however, or from some flaw in the indictment, he 
escaped. But though human vengeance did not reach him, 
Divine justice did. Nothing was ever heard of him afterwards. 
The vessel was supposed to have foundered on the way to 
Valparaiso, and all on board perished. 
Tute ou nuku, the son of Tama hara nui, too weak to con¬ 
tend with Te Rauparaha alone, went to the great Chief of the 
Ngaitahu, commonly called Bloody Jack, and solicited his aid 
to punish the murderers of his parents. The Chief thought 
so good a pretext for war was not to be neglected by one to 
whose feelings it was so congenial ; a large force was, there¬ 
fore, speedily raised, and a suitable opportunity soon occurred, 
when Rauparaha was busily engaged snaring the putangi tangi 
(Paradise ducks) at Kaparatehau Lake, with a party of his 
tribe, having all their canoes drawn up high on the beach, 
except one. The enemy came upon them so suddenly, 
that it was with the greatest difficulty Rauparaha and about 
forty men, women, and children escaped to the canoe, and 
pushed off, all the rest were slain ; but being encumbered with 
so many, they made little way. Rauparaha, therefore, com¬ 
pelled about half the number to jump overboard, and those 
who refused were thrown into the sea by force. The canoe, 
thus lightened, made way, and though hotly pursued, they 
escaped, and reached Kapiti. But this restless Chief must 
have his revenge. He, therefore, lost no time in raising a 
force. He visited the Nga ti awa, and solicited their aid, 
which was given; they immediately embarked, and sailed for 
the Karaka, adjoining to which is a bay called Orau moa, 
completely shut in by the promontory Karaka at one ex¬ 
tremity, and by another at the other, with lofty cliffs between. 
Here Bloody Jack, with the Ngaitahu, were encamped. One 
