CHAPTER XXIV PAI MARIRE, OR THE HAUHAU SECT 254 CHAPTER XXV MURDER MOST FOUL 262 CHAPTER XXVI ALARMS! EXCURSIONS! 272 CHAPTER XXVII POVERTY BAY 280 CHAPTER XXVIII THE LAST RALLY 288 CHAPTER XXIX THE SUN OF PEACE 307 CHAPTER XXX THE DOMINION OF NEW ZEALAND 318 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Heke fells the Flagstaff at Kororareka _Frontispiece_ Farewell to Hawaiki 8 Victors in the Fight 66 The Fight in Massacre Bay 75 Hongi's last "Word" to his People 115 A Dreadful Recognition 122 Signing the Treaty of Waitangi 141 Phillpotts at Oheawai 190 A Boy's Heroism. "Awake! Awake!" 208 Major Witchell's Charge at Nukumaru 234 The Frenzy of the Hauhau. The Incantation 256 Butters gives the Alarm--Poverty Bay 284 MAP New Zealand viii PART I THE MAORI CHAPTER I THE COMING OF THE RACE The voice of lamentation and the noise of weeping were heard in Hawaiki;[1] for men's hands were lifted up to slay their own kin: so that father slew son, and son smote father, and brother strove against brother, until nowhere in all that pleasant land was there peace. Wherefore, little children hid themselves for fear; and women, having cut their cheeks with sharks' teeth, and gashed their bosoms with sharp shells and pieces of _tuhua_[2], raised the _tangi_[3] for the warriors who every day passed through the portals which give upon the Waters of Reinga.[4] But Ngahue, being a great chief, might not weep; so he sat apart in his _whare_,[5] neither eating nor drinking, while he prayed to the gods and to his ancestors that they would make a way of escape from the threatening doom. For Ngahue was sore stricken, having been worsted in the fight, and well he knew that for the conquered was no mercy. Wherefore, he sat with bowed head and covered face, and prayed for light. And light came; for the gods had pity upon Ngahue, who was ever their faithful servant. So Ngahue arose in the black darkness, bidding his wife be of good cheer and patiently await his return, and with noiseless tread stole forth from his _whare_.