HAU-HAU CANNIBAL FEASTS. (From the " Taranaki Herald," Oct. 31.)
"We have received further intelligence from the rebel district. One of the women of Tito Kowaru's hapu, visited the wife of a settler pear Wairoa, and hne given nn account of this cannibal tribe. A correspondent writing to us says :—- "The horrible cruelties perpetrated by the New ! Zealanders in former times on their prisoners have again been indulged in to satiate their inveterate hatred and revenge towards the Pukuhu. The wounded who were left behind in the reireit from Rauruvu, were dragged into the pah, suhjecte.l to insult and torture, and' eventualy burnod to death, their bodies afterwards cut in pieces and eagerly devoured even by the women and children — any of the men who were not fortunate enough to obtain a piece of human flesh were hooted by their wives and abused as cowards."
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North Otago Times, Volume XI, Issue 359, 30 October 1868, Page 3
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144HAU-HAU CANNIBAL FEASTS. (From the "Taranaki Herald," Oct. 31.) North Otago Times, Volume XI, Issue 359, 30 October 1868, Page 3
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