Boyd massacre
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The Boyd massacre occurred in December 1809 when Māori of Ngāti Pou from Whangaroa Harbour in northern New Zealand killed and ate between 66 and 70 European passengers and crew members from the Britis
The Blowing Up of the Boyd by Louis John Steele, 1889
Portrait of Elizabeth "Betsey" Broughton, painted in Sydney in 1814 by convict artist Richard Read Sr., National Library of Australia
Walter Wright's The Burning of the Boyd was executed in 1908 and is one of his best known paintings
Te Pahi
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Te Pahi was a Māori tribal leader and traveller from New Zealand. He was from the Ngāpuhi iwi and lived in the Rangihoua Bay area of the Bay of Islands.
Boyd massacre
…ashore, in a rescue attempt, by another Māori chief who had come to trade with the Boyd. In March 1810, European whalers attacked the island pā of Chief Te Pahi of Ngāpuhi about 60 km south-east of Whangaroa in retribution for the Boyd killings in the mistaken belief that these Māori had ordered the killings…
Te Pahi, Maori Chief by George Prideaux Robert Harris (who died in 1810)