Should the Hauhau be so imprudent as to answer "Yes," Titoko would lift his potato-kit and set it on his rival's head.
Two days later the Hauhau leader, Patara, arrived and held a trial in the church.
He was armed with a gun, intending to assist his Hauhau friends in their attack on his fellow-whites.
With them the recollections of bush-marches and ambuscades and storming of Hauhau stockades are still fresh and vivid.
In the building of this new pa, Kimble Bent and his Hauhau comrades toiled early and late until it was completed.