Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 24, 2021 10:51:32 GMT 12
CAPTURED BY MĀORI – Trevor Bentley
In six weeks we procured 3563 skins, and on the 11th of October we were taken by the natives of New Zealand, between 10 and 11 o’clock at night. They set fire to our huts, burnt our skins and the provisions we had left. They tied our hands behind our backs and we were marched by them to Looking Glass Bay, which was upwards of 150 miles. During the whole of this time we had nothing to eat but roasted fish which the natives subsist on themselves.
A tribe .. took us before their King and Queen and the moment we were brought before them, John Router, of London, was ordered to be killed. They tied him to a tree and two ..one before and one behind him, with a club each, knocked him on the head. They then cut off his head and buried it. The rest of the body, [they] deposited in a kind of oven underground and roasted it, as a person would roast an animal. Of this they gave us to eat and having nothing else, we partook of it, which tasted very much like roasted pork........
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In six weeks we procured 3563 skins, and on the 11th of October we were taken by the natives of New Zealand, between 10 and 11 o’clock at night. They set fire to our huts, burnt our skins and the provisions we had left. They tied our hands behind our backs and we were marched by them to Looking Glass Bay, which was upwards of 150 miles. During the whole of this time we had nothing to eat but roasted fish which the natives subsist on themselves.
A tribe .. took us before their King and Queen and the moment we were brought before them, John Router, of London, was ordered to be killed. They tied him to a tree and two ..one before and one behind him, with a club each, knocked him on the head. They then cut off his head and buried it. The rest of the body, [they] deposited in a kind of oven underground and roasted it, as a person would roast an animal. Of this they gave us to eat and having nothing else, we partook of it, which tasted very much like roasted pork........
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