Extract from a Letter written by W. Thompson to Natives on the East Coast, professing to report the engagement at Rangiaohia. (The actual loss to the Natives was above 100, and only one horse is said to have been killed on our side.)

"Those tribes then went on, and came to close quarters, the one with the bayonet, the other with the tomahawk. Twenty of the Pakehas fell. It was a hand to hand fight. Then came the cavalry. They now came upon our party. I called out 'fire'. One volley was fired, and every horse was killed; not one escaped. There was an end- Ngatiraukawa lost three. Urewera two, Tuwharetoa two, and Rangwewehi one.

"These were all our dead: as for the Pakehas, they had the bed (of death) to themselves.

"The General has proposed to make peace. It is ended.

"From Wi Tamehaua."