Canoeing on the Patea--The voyage to Hukatéré--The white man's world again--Bent the medicine-man--_Makutu_, or the Black Art--Bent's later days--The end pp. 321-332 APPENDIX pp. 333-336 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS SKETCH MAP OF TARANAKI _Frontispiece_ PAGE MOUNT EGMONT, TARANAKI 15 A TARANAKI FRONTIER FORT 17 PATARA, A HAUHAU PROPHET 47 A BRITISH COLUMN ON THE MARCH 69 THE SCOUT 85 THE AMBUSCADE 113 TUTANGÉ WAIONUI, A HAUHAU WARRIOR 151 MAJOR VON TEMPSKY 159 MAJOR VON TEMPSKY 173 MAJOR KEMP (KEPA TE RANGIHIWINUI) 211 THE FIGHT AT MOTUROA 218, 219 A HAUHAU SCOUT 235 A CONSTABULARY OFFICER IN BUSH-FIGHTING COSTUME 279 KIMBLE BENT, THE PAKEHA-MAORI 325 THE ADVENTURES OF KIMBLE BENT CHAPTER I THE DESERTER On the banks of the Tangahoé--The runaway soldier--A Maori scout--Off to the rebel camp. On the banks of one of the many swift rivers that roll down to the Tasman Sea through the Taranaki Plains a young man in the blue undress uniform of a private soldier sat smoking his pipe. He was dripping with water, and a little pool had collected where he crouched in the fern, a few feet from the bank of the stream. He had plainly just emerged from the river. His clothes were torn, and he was capless. He was a man of about the middle size, spare of build, with sharp dark eyes and a bronzed complexion that told of past life under a tropic sun.