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TE RAUPARAHA AJS T D RANGIHAEATA. 
tikei. Two Wanganui Chiefs pursued after him, and had 
they not been dissuaded by others, would certainly have taken 
him prisoner, and given him up to the Governor, for they had 
no love for him. 
When the disturbances three years later broke out in the 
Hutt, he went and put himself at the head of the* hostile 
natives. Rauparaha remained neutral, but having so many 
of his relatives engaged in the war, who in the native style 
continued to hold intercourse with him, he was suspected, and 
the Governor ordered the Captain of the Calliope to seize him, 
which was no difficult matter, as he continued to reside in his 
house close to the sea-shore. A boat’s crew quietly landed 
one evening, and carried him back with them to the ship. 
Although an old man, Rangihaeata accompanied the natives 
in all their skirmishes, and lived with them in the depth of the 
forest, and in their fastnesses. Before he left Porirua, (travel¬ 
ling at that time being stopped by the natives,) I saw him, 
having been brought before that savage Chief. He expressed 
himself very bitterly about the conduct of Government, and 
especially alluded to the burning of a church and burial 
ground belonging to the Hutt natives. It was indeed an 
unjustifiable and wanton act committed by a constable, who 
had no proper officer to superintend him. He called the 
Europeans a murderous race. He was reminded of his own 
acts, and told that the Europeans were afraid to commit 
murder, from the fear of God. He said it was false; and as 
for God, he was a god himself, and thrust out his tongue, 
* When Rauparaha heard that Rangihaeata intended to fight with the 
Europeans, the following angry conversation took place between the two 
Chiefs:— 
E mea ana te Rauparaha ki a Rauparaha said, go to the mountain, 
Rangihaeata Haere koe ki te maunga that you may be smoked to death by wet 
kia waka pongia ki te alii rarauhi. fern, alluding to his having to encamp 
out in the depth of winter, and use wet 
fuel. 
Te mea ana a Rangihaeata haere The answer given was, go you to the 
koe ki te moana kia waka puarutia sea, as a relish for potatoes, alluding to 
ki te tokanga kai maoa. the custom of placing some fish or flesh 
on the basket of cooked pototoes, as a 
relish, and to his being taken prisoner. 
