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.
Te Pahi, Maori Chief by George Prideaux Robert Harris (who died in 1810)
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
Te Pahi
…with Marsden, who formed plans for a Church Missionary Society mission under Te Pahi's protection at Rangihoua. Te Pahi was incorrectly blamed for the burning of the Boyd incident in 1809 and his pā on Motu Apo was stormed by crew from several whaling ships in retaliation in 1810. The whalers murdered many people, looted…
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