This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...from the pah, and the command of the party was to be given to Te Ori, the young Waikato chief, who had already tested the courage of the Mauopoko in the mountain defile; and the tactics of that warrior were now decisive and cautious. The disposition of the belligerents was carefully noted by Waiki. He saw where their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ...from the pah, and the command of the party was to be given to Te Ori, the young Waikato chief, who had already tested the courage of the Mauopoko in the mountain defile; and the tactics of that warrior were now decisive and cautious. The disposition of the belligerents was carefully noted by Waiki. He saw where their weaknesses lay; as well points overguarded as those that were carelessly attended to; so, taking his allies into his counsels, he devised a plan of attack for young Te Ori's execution. As the Mauopoko were much dispersed in their several bivouacs on the driest places of the swamp, some of these isolated parties, it was evident, might easily be destroyed. Taking the sea front as the face proper of the pah, one can easily determine its right, left, and rear faces. On the left of the pah, the investing tana seemed to be asleep to a man; on the remaining divisions the sentries were to be seen lazily and inertly creeping about at long intervals. Fifty men, principally of the Waikato contingent, were quietly marshalled under Te Ori, to whom Waiki gave strict orders to follow their leader, and to attend to his commands. The manuka hurdles were put into requisition; willing hands laid them down over the swamp outside of the left face, and in perfect silence the work was done. The band issued from a low gate in the palisade, as their own seer, in silence and with impressive genuflexions, consulted by the starlight the omens of a circle of reeds placed in the sward, and the prognostications were those of success. Elated with the spirit of his art, the seer threw aside his scanty L clothing, and, bounding in air with arms extended, danced the wizard's midnight measure. A guard was then placed on the hurdles to prevent a surprise, in case of Te Ori's failu...
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