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Natives who had been on the ship as part 
of the crew then threw off the mask and 
upbraided Captain Thompson for their mal- 
treatment, and almost immediately the cap- 
tain and his crew were assaulted with clubs 
and axes, and all were prostrated before 
they had time to defend themselves. Hvery 
ohne of them was killed on the spot, and their 
bodies afterwards devoured by the Natives. 
tn the dusk of the evening the Natives 
launched the boats, and rowed to the ship. 
They got on board and the second officer 
was knocked down and killed. The seamen 
of the watch were in lke manner surprised 
and killed. Some of the murderers then 
went down to the cabin and asked those 
who were there to go on deck, a female 
passenger being killed on the cabin ladder. 
The rest of those below were killed as they 
went up, with the exception of four or five 
who ran uv the shrouds and remained in 
the rigging the rest of the night. These 
unhappy creatures afterwards got on shore, 
but were all killed. A woman passenger 
and two children, who were afterwards 
found in the cabin, were spared from the 
massacre and afterwards taken on shore t¢ 
a hut where they were afterwards found ana 
rescued, The ship was afterwards burned 
to the water’s edge. There were many 
conflicting accounts of this historic mas- 
sacre, but the foregoing probably gives 
as accurate an account of the tragedy 
as could be obtained at the time 
Fuller details are to be found 1n 
the first volume of Mr Robert M‘Nab’s 
“Fistorical Records of New Zealand.” 
At Kaitaia, thence to Ahipara and 
90-Mile Beach. 
Having for the whole of the dav been 
traversing an interesting part of the far 
north, we reached Kaitaia about 6 p.m., and 
found that the local manager of the North 
Auckland Farmers’ Co-operative Limited, 
Mr Morpeth, to whom we had a letter of 
introduction, had vorocured excellent accom- 
modation for us in a well-conducted board- 
ing-house. The town was unusually busy, 
owing to a visit that was being paid to it 
by Mr XfDonald. the Public Trustee, 
accompanied by a former holder of the posi- 
