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TE RAUPARAHA AND RANGIHAEATA. 
hundred and forty of the Ngatiawa let themselves down 
the cliff, but were all cut off. In the morning Bloody Jack 
went on his way, and Te Rauparaha did not think proper to 
follow him ; he returned to Cloudy Bay. When Bloody Jack 
and his party embarked, the canoe of Tute ou nuku was 
capsized, and he was drowned; all the men in it however were 
saved. When the Chief saw them, he was so indignant that 
they could save themselves, and yet suffer their young Chief 
to be drowned, that he killed them all. 
Puoho, the Chief of Nga-ti-tama, and Priest to Rauparaha, 
conducted a small war party of forty, and. went by the West 
Coast, instead of the Kaikoura, to war with the people living 
on that side. His road was by Waka-tu (Nelson). He reached 
a small place, which he took, killing some and putting to flight 
others. The news of this attack was carried to Taiaroa, the 
head Chief of the place; he and Bloody Jack lost no time in 
going there with a party of about a hundred. Their wish was 
not to kill Puoho, for whom they had a regard, but merely to 
take him prisoner, and spare his men. Puoho and his party 
slept in two bouses, but he himself was outside in the verandah. 
Taiaroa told his men to try and capture him alive ; Puoho, 
however, would not yield, he fought bravely all night with the 
enemy. At last one of the party got on a house, and shot 
him. Hitherto they had not used their guns, wishing to save 
them. When this was done, Taiaroa pulled off his cap and 
threw it on the roof of the house to make it tapu, and said, 
here let the fight cease, and made peace. He had the head 
of Puoho cut off as a mokai, a sign of regard, and caused his 
body to be buried; but when they left, the people of the place 
who had fled dug it up and ate it. 
In the morning, Taiaroa and Bloody Jack returned, taking 
Wakapiri, the son of Puoho, with them as a slave; he treated 
him, however, as his son, and afterwards dismissed him with 
a handsome present of two green-stone mere, and a piece of 
land, as an atonement for his father’s death. This was the 
end of the war, and from that period another power began to 
be felt, which soon made a remarkable change in that part of 
the country. 
