Ngatapa Pah, Poverty Bay, New Zealand, lately captured from the Maoris, 1869. '...the stronghold of the Hauhau, or fanatic rebel chief Te-Kooti,...was captured by the armed constabulary and native which the Hauhaus had fortified themselves, was a triangular slope with natural defences on two height is 700 ft. or 800 had constructed three deep ditches and high and thick earth had about 200 warriors to defend the Pah. The colonial forces were 240 English Constabulary, sixty Arawas, and 370 Ngatiporus, under their Chiefs Rapata and
Ngatapa Pah, Poverty Bay, New Zealand, lately captured from the Maoris, 1869. '...the stronghold of the Hauhau, or fanatic rebel chief Te-Kooti,...was captured by the armed constabulary and native which the Hauhaus had fortified themselves, was a triangular slope with natural defences on two height is 700 ft. or 800 had constructed three deep ditches and high and thick earth had about 200 warriors to defend the Pah. The colonial forces were 240 English Constabulary, sixty Arawas, and 370 Ngatiporus, under their Chiefs Rapata and Hotene. Mr. Richmond, the Colonial Minister for Native Affairs, accompanied the was received that the Hauhaus were escaping in the grey of the morning. The inner lines were immediately Hauhaus were so weak with constant watching and hard, scanty fare, that a large part of them were easily overtaken and killed. Few prisoners were taken except women and children. Indeed, quarter was neither expected nor 120 prisoners, in all, have been taken, of whom about twenty-five are half-willing participators in Te-Kooti's fortunes. It is yet uncertain whether Te-Kooti himself is among the dead'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.
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