The result was a bitter tribal war in which she was amply avenged.
Another skipper, after picking up a number of freshly-cured tattooed heads, the fruit of a recent tribal battle, put into the bay of the very tribe which had been beaten in the fighting.

When a number of natives came on board to trade, he thought it a capital joke--after business was over--to roll out on the deck a sackful of the heads of their slain kinsfolk.

Recognising the features, the insulted Maoris sprang overboard with tears and cries of rage.
[Illustration: MAORI WAHINE Photo by GENERAL ROBLEY.] A third worthy, whilst trading in the Bay of Islands, missed some articles on board his schooner.

He at once had the chief Koro Koro, who happened to be on board, seized and bound hand and foot in the cabin.

Koro Koro, who was noted both for strength and hot temper,P Land.