A miserable train of slaves were spared to labour in the villages of the Waikato.
[Illustration: MOUNT EGMONT, TARANAKI Photo by I.A.MARTIN, Wanganui] Ahead of the victorious chieftain lay yet another _pa_.

It was near those quaint conical hills--the Sugar-Loaves--which, rising in and near the sea, are as striking a feature as anything can be in the landscape where Egmont's white peak dwarfs all else.

Compared to the force in the Waitara _pa_ the garrison of this last refuge was small--only three hundred and fifty, including women and children.

But among them were eleven Whites.

Some of these may have been what Mr.
Rusden acidly styles them all--"dissipated Pakeha-Maoris living with Maori Delilahs." But they were Englishmen, and had four old ship's guns.