After the fight, the chief of the soldiers sent some people with a white flag to the pa, to ask permission to take away the dead soldiers who lay beside the fence. They were told that they might come and take them next day. Soon after the flag had returned it was night, and then many near friends of Heke came from Kaikohe and entered the pa, for they had heard that the soldiers had been beaten off, and this gave them courage to come, which they had not before, and then late in the night they joining with the men of the pa danced the war dance which is appropriate to victory, and sang the song of triumph as they danced, and the song sounded among the hills in the night like thunder. This was the song-- E tama te uaua, E taima te maroro, Ina hoki ra te tohu! O te uaua. Kei taku ringa, e mauana. Te upoko. O te Kawau Tatakiha! O youth, of sinewy force, O men of martial strength, Behold the sign of power! In my hand I hold the scalp, Of the Kawau Tatakiha. And often in the night the watch-cry of the pa was heard, and this was the cry of the pa--"Come on! come on! soldiers, for revenge, come on! Stiff lie your dead by the fence of my pa--come on, come on!" And also a great shouting and screaming was heard, which the soldiers thought was the cry of one of their men being tortured; but the noise was the voice of a priest who was then possessed of a spirit. But, nevertheless, the body of one soldier was burned that night, for as the people were mending the fence by torchlight there was a dead soldier lying near, and they put a torch of kauri resin on the body to light their work, which burnt the body very much, and caused the report to be spread afterwards, when the body was found by the soldiers, that the man had been tortured; but this was not true, for the man was dead before the fire was thrown on the body.