A miraculous last stand

ongerlongeter and Montpelliatta were well aware of the fear they inspired in their enemies. Under their leadership, Oyster Bay and Big River war parties relentlessly terrorised the intruders. Chiefs, who wore distinguishing war paint, appeared doubly menacing. When Tongerlongeter and his warriors besieged their victims, they taunted them and shook their spears. When they fell upon them, they hurt them in ways that sent a chill up the spine of every colonist. The fear they produced in the minds of exposed settlers and convicts was often paralysing. In a shaky hand, one servant wrote