The Bush War-Parties.

Those bush-fighters were super-men, in their particular field. They endured storm and cold, they were often more than half-starved, they climbed mountains and braved flooded rivers; they held persistently on the war-path for week after week. They set out from their base camps loaded like pack-horses; the only consolation was that the longer they marched the lighter the swags became; when the rations they carried were exhausted they still kept on, climbing, scouting, ever hunting for traces of the Hauhau leader.

Sometimes they rushed a camp, killing a few men, but Te Kooti ever was just one jump ahead of them.