"Wednesday, 3... In the evening the brethren returned. Brother Nott could not find Te Towha; he is hiding himself somewhere in the mountains. Brothers Elder and Wilson proceeded to Pomare’s camp; but when they got there he was on the point of sailing for Papara where most of his followers had gone before... Pomare was standing by the dead bodies on the seaside, giving orders to the people and waiting till all the carcasses of the slain should be put on board canoes to send to the great Marae at Taearabu. The brethren saw only about thirty; the rest had been previously sent away for Taearabu; those they saw were cut and mangled in a shocking manner. The number of the slain is not easily ascertained; the brethren conjecture they might not exceed one hundred. The district of Attahuru presents a horrid scene of ruin and devastation. Pomare appeared as if he was conscious of acting wrong, but was not for entering into conversation with the brethren. They requested him not to proceed in killing the women and children, and entreated him to spare the Attahuruans that are in the mountains: this he promised to do."

Here ends the Missionary Diary. The next letter, dated Nov. 12, 1808, announces their departure from the island in company with Pomare himself, driven away by the universal outbreak caused by Pomare’s massacres of June. Other such massacres had occurred, but this was the most atrocious, and the missionaries themselves did not know the full atrocity of the act. Ellis’s abstract contains no more facts than the Diary furnished him. Moerenhaut continues the story from the point where the missionaries broke off:

"After having massacred all whom they had surprised [in Attahuru], after having burned the houses, they went on to Papara, where Tati,

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