TE RAUPARAHA AND RANGIHAEATA. 
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which quivered like a serpent’s, to an unnatural length, and 
rolled his bloody eye-balls like a demoniac. 
A large British and native force was raised, and he was 
attacked in his pa at Paua-taha-nui, and driven from it; thence 
he took up a post on a mound in the middle of the forest of 
the Horokiri Valley, called Remutaka. With some loss he was 
driven thence, and conducting his men along the heights of the 
mountains in the depth of winter, supporting themselves 
chiefly on pitau, (cooked fern tree,) he safely reached Porou- 
tawao, although pursued by a very large force. The spot he 
selected was so shut in by swamps, that it was thought most 
prudent to leave him there. 
Rauparaha remained a prisoner for nearly two years. The 
writer saw him on board the Calliope, a few days after his 
being taken. He was well fed and kindly treated, and had a 
large cabin given up to him ; he appeared in good spirits, 
and did not seem to repine at his lot; in fact, he became 
strongly attached to Captain Stanley, an open jovial British 
sailor, and afterwards, when released at Auckland, he left all 
his valuables in the Captain’s charge, and whenever the 
Calliope came near his residence, he showed Captain Stanley, 
in every way which laid in his power, his attachment to him. 
The old Chief on returning to his tribe, did not feel that he 
had been degraded ; neither was there any diminution of his 
regard for Europeans. The Governor wisely gave him several 
handsome presents on his departure, and from that time to his 
death, he quietly resided amongst his people, and invariably 
might he be seen at the daily service, morning and evening, 
dressed in a captain’s naval uniform. He seemed to view the 
rapid advance of his tribe in the arts of civilization with the 
greatest satisfaction, as well as the progress of the children in 
the schools. 
In November, 1849, the old Chief expired, at Otaki. He 
was not baptized, and although his son wished the burial 
service of the Church to be used at his funeral, the minister 
did not feel himself justified in doing so. It was, however, 
used, a lay member of the Church Missionary Society from 
Wanganui opportunely passing through the place, read the 
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