"Indeed, she was a pretty girl," says the old pakeha-Maori, recalling the dead past.

In his own little thatched whar that day sat Kimble Bent, the pakeha-Maori.

The pakeha-Maori was also a non-combatant, but he remained in the pa with Titokowaru until the firing began.

Von Tempsky's body, the pakeha-Maori had observed while on the marae, had not been mutilated, except for that tomahawk cut.