He went with the schooner.

On its arrival the unsuspecting "Lizard" came off to trade.
At the end of a friendly visit he was stepping into his canoe when his unofficially appointed executioner stepped quietly forward, levelled his double-barrelled gun, and shot "Lizard" dead.
As a matter of course the affair did not end there: "Lizard's" tribe were bound in honour to retaliate.

But upon whom?
The _Pakehas_ who had caused their chiefs death were far out of reach in the north.
Still they were not the only _Pakehas_ in the land.

In quite a different direction, in the harbour which Captain Cook had dubbed Hicks's Bay, lived two inoffensive Whites who had not even heard of "Lizard's" death.

What of that?
They were Whites, and therefore of the same tribe as the _Pakehas_ concerned! So the village in which they lived was stormed, one White killed at once, the other captured.
As the latter stood awaiting execution and consumption, by an extraordinary stroke of fortune a whaling ship ran into the bay.
The adroit captive offered, if his life were spared, to decoy his countrymen on shore, so that they could be massacred.