Cook most unfortunately missed the Harbour of Tauranga, the only safe port on the east coast between Auckland and Wellington for ships of any size.

Another Ngapuhi chief, the leader of an attack on the men of Tauranga, managed to arm his men with thirty-five muskets, which they used with crushing effect.

Eastward the Tauranga tribedestined in aftertimes to defeat the Queen's troops at the Gate Pacould in those days muster two thousand five hundred braves, and point to a thousand canoes lying on their beaches.

Always keeping on good terms with the Waikatos, he made firm allies of the men of Tauranga.

Cruelly were they undeceived as the canoes of Te Waharoa and his Tauranga allies shot on to the beach.

At Tauranga £50 had been given for a building site fifty feet square, in a pa.

It was decided to attack the Tauranga tribe, which had been aiding them.

Tauranga lies on the Bay of Plenty, about forty miles to the east of the Waikato.

Hearing that the Tauranga warriors were entrenching themselves at Te Rangi, Colonel Greer promptly marched thither, caught them before they had completed their works, and charging into the rifle-pits with the bayonet, completely routed the Maoris.

The blow was decisive, and the Tauranga tribe at once submitted.

The Waikato had been cleared, and the Tauranga tribes crushed.

It was in the country round the Wanganui River to the west, and in the part of the east coast, between Tauranga on the Bay of Plenty and Hawkes Bay, that the new mischief gave the most trouble.

Tauranga defeat, 283. tribe attacked, 282. Tawhaki, 63.