At that bush village of the anti-Pake ha faction, a Hauhau tribe called Patu-tokotoko, there were about eighty Maoris assembled. He was kept there, virtually a prisoner, for the next two or three days. He gave in his report the names of the principal men of the Hauhaus—Taumata, Te Kuru Kaanga, Te Peehi, Winiata te Kakai, Manurewa, Turehu, Raukawa, Te Aurere, Huriwaka, Te Whaiti, Niko, and Kaiatua. (Most of these, it may be added to the surveyor's story, were warriors who had fought against the Government in the wars; Te Peehi Hitaua was the highest in rank, a fine specimen of a stalwart fighting man.) Some of the speakers at the korero in the village were friendly. The strongest in opposition to the survey was the old chief Taumata, who said that if Rochfort had been taken prisoner on his land he would have cut all the surveyor's belongings up into small pieces and made slaves of all the party. Eventually letters were written to Kepa, and to Mr. Woon (Government Maori Agent at Wanganui) and to Rochfort himself, stating that if he returned to the work of carrying through the survey he would be turned back and his Maoris killed, and if he came a third time he would be killed.