Protected, indeed helped, thus on both flanks, he devoted his life to harassing the dwellers by the lower Thames and the Hauraki Gulf.

One great victory he won over them with the aid of his Waikato allies.

Their chief _pa_, Mata-mata, he seized by a piece of callous bad faith and murder.

After being admitted there by treaty to dwell as friends and fellow-citizens, his warriors rose one night and massacred their hosts without compunction.

Harried from the north by Hongi, the wretched people of the Thames were between the hammer and the anvil.