The contending parties exchanged insulting cries and abusive words in both languages.
The Tehua whom Tyope had grabbed by the hair made desperate lunges at him from below with a sharply pointed arrow.

He succeeded in slightly wounding him in several places.

Tyope kicked him in the abdomen, causing him to double up at once.

Regardless of the pain in the right hand Tyope succeeded in grasping the war-club at last.

With it he directed several blows at the head of the enemy, but they were so weak that only at the third stroke did the Tehua fall.