Yet even in his fury he spared a ship's boy who had been kind to him, and who ran to him for protection, and a woman and two girl-children.

All four were afterwards rescued by Mr.Berry, of Sydney, and took refuge with a friendly neighbouring chief, Te Pehi.

Meanwhile, the _Boyd_ had been stripped and burned.

In the orgie that followed George's father snapped a flint-lock musket over a barrel of gunpowder, and, with the followers round him, was blown to pieces.

Nigh seventy lives were lost in the _Boyd_ massacre.