For a while, I have sat back and let those who appeared to know what they were doing run the ship. I imagine that there are quite a few small fishes like me out here in the big ocean doing the same. Because

British regulars had shown little aptitude for this type of warfare and consequently were at a disadvantage. While working as a war correspondent for the Daily Southern Cross, Tempsky accompanied a company

On his news-hunting rides from Drury to the military posts in the district in the winter of 1863, Von Tempsky frequently called at a solitary house on the edge of the bush, between Papakura and Wairoa.

Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky was born at Königsberg (Kaliningrad), East Prussia, on 15 February 1828. Image Source He was the younger son of Julius Louis von Tempsky and his wife, Karoline Henriette

Kimble [Kimball] Bent Image Source From Hukatere the pakeha-Maori and his girl wife went to Taiporohenui, Bent's old home in the war days. There he lived for a year or so, blanketed like a Maori, and working

A story related by Bent is illustrative of the Maori belief, up to quite modern days, in malignant beings which made their homes in lonely waters and in caves, the dreaded taniwha. The tale of the “Taniwha”

More than one outlaw from the white country outside took refuge in the Taranaki bush even in those post-bellum days. One of these was Hiroki, the Maori who killed McLean. Hiroki (“The Lean One”) had quarrelled

Kimble Bent lived in this securely hidden place of refuge, and at Paihau village, nearby, from the end of 1869 until about 1876. He was now a Maori in all his ways, he planted food-crops and harvested

The Hauhau war-chief's mana-tapu [Glory] was gone, and there was nothing for it but to fly to the depths of the wilderness. He and his men gathered in a few days at Rimatoto but made a very short stay

The Wanganui Kupapas were fully as savage as any wild rebel. No quarter was given to any Hauhau warrior, and no Hauhau thought of asking for any mercy. Of one frightful scene, Porter was an eye-witness.

Two of our men that we have been following, young Tutange and the warrior Katene Tu-Whakaruru, who were out scouting on horseback, discovered the troops lying in ambush just outside, waiting to attack

Now came an illustration of that many-sided law, the tapu. Titokowaru took the two eels which Bent had carried home on his back and hung them up as an offering to the atua, the heathen gods. Image Source

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“After we deserted Tauranga-ika,” said the old pakeha-Maori, “we led a miserably rough life in the bush. We were as near starvation sometimes as we could well be. Kepa's Kupapas and the white scouts were

It was fortunate that this Hauhau ambuscade had been unmasked. The camp was already astir, and the troops were having their early morning coffee, and in another half-hour would have begun the march by

An incident of Hauhau life at this period, illustrative of the pitilessly savage character of the olden Maori, was told thus by Kimble Bent. “While we were living in the pa [fortified village] at Taurangaika,

The most dreaded hour in Maori warfare was the dark, dank hour just before the dawn, and then it was well to be on the qui vive, for Kepa's [Major Kemp] Image Source dusky forest-rangers and their white

Some of the Maoris proposed that the bodies of the slain whites, the “Fish of Whiro,” should all be burned or buried. But up leapt Timoti, the wildest of all the wild Waitotara tribe, the cannibal Nga-Rauru,

The grim story of that hard-fought retreat through the bush was told by Kimble Bent. After the kokiri, [the rush out in pursuit], had been ordered by the Maori war-chief, one of the Nga-Rauru men came

Just within the stockade of the Moturoa, or Papatihakehake pa, [fortified village], there was a small, roughly built taumaihi, or look-out stage, ten or twelve feet above the ground, high enough to allow