It wiU not be necessary to foUow General Cameron in his
campaign further than to state, that he gradually but slowly
advanced along the coast, estabhshing camps as he pro-
ceeded at Nukumaru, Waitotara, Patea, Manawapou, and
Waingongoro. This was the Hmit of his progress into the
enemy's country. Weraroa and the inland pas he declined
attacking without an additional reinforcement of two thousand
men. One engagement may be alluded to as shewing the
determination of the hostile natives. At Kakaramea, on
the Patea, a party of not more than one hundred natives,
including several women, actually opposed the advance of
General Cameron at the head of eight hundred men, and
that, too, in the open plain ! Thirty-five of the poor
creatures fell, and amongst them two women, before they
gave way.
A party of the fanatical Hauhaus went across the country
from Taranaki to Taupo, where they plundered the Kev.
Mr. Grace's house, and afterwards went on to the east coast.
The Missionary of that place was then absent in Auckland.
NIGHT EN'CAMPMENT.
CHAPTER Vm.
KING UOVEWEUT:— (continued. )

On the 2iid of March an event occurred which has given a
more brutal character to the war than any which preceded it.
The Opotiki natives had declined taking any part in the
war, all were peacable there, and Mr. and Mrs. Volkner felt
themselves quite secure, until the arrival of Father Garavel
with letters from the hostile natives at Waikato ; he had been
permitted to pass through the British Camp at Tauranga in
virtue of his sacred ofEce, but immediately he reached
Opotiki the state of the natives appeared to be changed;
bitter feehngs of hostility began to appear. Struck with
astonishment at the sudden alteration, Mr. Volkner sought



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