Pausing within easy range, the French opened fire with deadly effect and continued to kill till Crozet, wearying of the slaughter, told the oarsmen to pull on.

He asks us to believe that the Maoris did not understand the effect of musketry, and yet stood obstinately to be butchered, crying out and wondering over the bodies of their fallen.
The French next set to work to bring off their sick shipmates from their camp.

Strange to say they had not been attacked, though the natives had been prowling round them.
Thereafter a village on an islet close by the ship's anchorage was stormed with much slaughter of the inhabitants.

Fifty were slain and the bodies buried with one hand sticking out of the ground to show that the French did not eat enemies.

Next the ship's guns were tried on canoes in the bay.