The little redoubt was a frightful sight. Dead and wounded men were lying all over the place in pools of blood; two of them were shockingly mutilated with tomahawks. Out of the twenty-one defenders of the redoubt, ten were killed and five were wounded; only six came through the fight without a wound. Hauwhenua withdrew his disappointed _Tekau-ma-rua_, carrying those of their wounded who were unable to walk, and marched back to Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu. The "lion" of Titoko's speech, though sore wounded, had in truth closed his mouth on some of their most daring braves. Takitaki, a bold, athletic young Hauhau, who was in the _Tekau-ma-rua_, was one of those who attacked Captain Ross at the gateway. The Captain shattered Takitaki's left arm with a bullet from his revolver before he fell.[6] CHAPTER XIII THE KILLING OF KANE Bent and Kane brought before Titokowaru--Kane's flight--Captured by the Hauhaus--A traitor's end. When the renegade Charles Kane, or "Kingi," fled from the Turuturu-Mokai fight after receiving his bullet-wound, he made his way to the Turangaréré village, and announced that he would not return to Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu. The Maoris, however, took him back to Te Ngutu, and he and Kimble Bent were brought before Titokowaru, who was sitting in the _Wharé-kura_. Bent now appears, from his own account, to have wearied of his terrible life amongst the Hauhaus. The war-chief fiercely questioned "Kingi," whom he suspected of an intention to return to the European camps. Then turning to "Ringiringi," he said: "E Ringi, speak! Do you ever think of leaving us and running away to the _pakehas_?" Bent confessed that he now desired to return to the men of his own colour, adding. "But I will never take arms against you." Titokowaru glared at his white man, then he went to the door of the council-house and called to the people in the _marae_ to enter. When they were all in the big _wharé_, Titokowaru ordered them to close the door and the sliding-window. In the gloom of the praying-house the people sat in terrible silence, and the white men trembled for their heads. Titokowaru, fearfully stern and menacing, addressed the _pakehas_. "_Whakarongo mai!_ Listen to me. If you persist in saying that you wish to return to the white men, it will be your death! I will kill you both with my tomahawk, now, in this house, unless you promise that you will never leave the Maoris! I will slay you, and your bodies will be cooked in the _hangi_!" "Ringiringi," in real fear of his life, made answer that he would remain with the Hauhaus if Titoko would protect him, for he dreaded some of the chief's fiercer followers. "Kingi," too, hastened to give the required promise--a promise which he, unlike his fellow-_pakeha_, broke at the first opportunity.