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Updated: July 1, 2025
Rauparaha, and his hand tightened upon and almost crumpled the paper in his grasp; then he smiled, but with a red gleam in his dark eyes. "'The assault on Maungatabu by the 18th Royal Irish," he read. "The brave Irish," he said, with a mocking smile, raising his head and looking intently into the pale face of the girl; "the brave Irish!
Then, in a curiously strained voice, he said: "Miss Torringley, may I ask a favour of you? Will you give me that sketch?" * A white man who had adopted Maori life and customs. She moved quickly to the table, and untied the portfolio again. "Which, Dr. Rauparaha? The last " "Yes," he interrupted, with sudden fierceness, "the Last Shot at Maungatabu." She took it out and came over to him.
"Yes," she murmured, "I have heard my father speak of it. But it was not by his orders he was a soldier, but not a cruel man. See, this next sketch shows the bursting of the shell." He took it from her hand and looked. At the foot of it was written, "The Last Shot at Maungatabu."
So long as we live, breathe, and have our being, so long will the strong oppress and slay the weak; so long will the accursed earth-hunger of a great Christian nation be synonymous for bloodshed, murder, and treachery; so long will she hold out with one hand to the children of Ham the figure of Christ crucified, and preach of the benefits of civilisation; while with the other she sweeps them away with the Maxim gun; so long will such things as the 'Last Shot at Maungatabu' the murder of women and children, always be."
With bated breath she listened to the end, and then murmured "It is terrible to think of, an unjust warfare. Were any women and children killed at Maungatabu?" "Yes," he almost shouted back, "many were shot as they crossed the swamp. And when they gained the fern two more were killed by that last shell a woman and child my mother and my sister!"
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