. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . ick breathing of his pursuer when he invoked the aid of his atua, who caused a friendly mist to descend and hide him from pursuit: remindmg us of the scene on the plains of Troy, when Menelaus with vindictive strides rushed again On Paris spear in hand, but her involved In mist opaque, Venus -with ease divine Snatched thence. Ngatimamoe being defeated retired some miles up the river, where they took up a fortified position, and being still superior to their assailants in number hoped to make a successful stand. But their hopes were
. Transactions and proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . ick breathing of his pursuer when he invoked the aid of his atua, who caused a friendly mist to descend and hide him from pursuit: remindmg us of the scene on the plains of Troy, when Menelaus with vindictive strides rushed again On Paris spear in hand, but her involved In mist opaque, Venus -with ease divine Snatched thence. Ngatimamoe being defeated retired some miles up the river, where they took up a fortified position, and being still superior to their assailants in number hoped to make a successful stand. But their hopes were doomed to disappointment, for in a few days they were again attacked, and after a desperate resistance defeated with great slaughter at Teihoka, where, till quite recently, the bleaching bones witnessed to the numbers of the slain. The few who escaped fled into the forests towards the west, across the lake Te Anau. Those portions of the tribe scattered along the coast from Otakou to thesounds, were in the course of a few years destroyed or absorbed into the. TRANS. NliNSTITUTLVOLIRE. a Morulioua Tahumatama =:Hiuotant>opoKUKI = Tone Moebau. {The fether of a band of heroes) ^ I J I Xgati Kuri, Q / (J/lialtaatii, \V6akapniie, ■Whakakino | TuLikn(tohnnga) re mawhenaa Koti Faneke Tupai = Te Waipunahai okote wohi, Tuta *= Tn wliitkarawa, Te uatfthi, Te mihi, To ^ori, Te ruaki, Te whakatikipoua, Weua, Te = PipirikiTAMATKARAKTTr (Killed at Otaki, as utn for Te Pehi). ^ ^ § 5? - ^ iu ^ ^ -S o 1 ^ ^ $ i ^ Itakni wliska&ta TahniDiitn. I Bnkapnpn {Thest fragraeutarj-
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