Should the Hauhau be so imprudent as to answer "Yes," Titoko would lift his potato-kit and set it on his rival's head.

Two days later the Hauhau leader, Patara, arrived and held a trial in the church.

He was armed with a gun, intending to assist his Hauhau friends in their attack on his fellow-whites.

With them the recollections of bush-marches and ambuscades and storming of Hauhau stockades are still fresh and vivid.