Then they burned the village.

Further south lay a larger _pa_, that of Kaiapoi.

Here the inhabitants, warned by fugitives from the north, were on their guard.

Surprise being impossible, Rauparaha tried guile, and by assurances of friendship worked upon the Kaiapois to allow his chiefs to go in and out of their _pa_, buying greenstone and exchanging hospitalities.

But for once he met his match.