Build a Pa at Patoka.

Accordingly, about the close of the year 1840 the Taupos came at night without giving any notice, and entering a small pa on the Waitotara River, in which a party belonging to the Ngarauru Tribe resided, they took some of the inhabitants; some were killed, whilst others escaped to Ihupuku, a few miles distant. The Taupos then built themselves a pa at Patoka, a hill within a quarter of a mile of Ihupuku. In the meantime messages were despatched from the latter place to Waimate and Taranaki to request the assistance of their friends, which was promptly rendered, and in a few days they were collected at Ihupuku, when they sent three persons as messengers of peace to their foe, expressing their unwillingness to fight and hoping they would depart. Those messengers were made prisoners, and one of them stripped of the European clothing in which he was clad.