Of course the slain were eaten.
[Footnote 1: As given by him to J.L.Nicholas five years afterwards.
See Nicholas' _Voyage to New Zealand_, vol.i., page 145.

There are those who believe the story of the flogging to be an invention of George.

Their authority is Mr.White, a Wesleyan missionary who lived at Whangaroa from 1823 to 1827, and to whom the natives are said to have admitted this.

But that must have been, at least, fourteen years after the massacre, and George was by that time at odds with many of his own people.

He died in 1825.