Note 1 — Chapter VI

Those flags, displayed on the war-poles in the Hauhau villages in 1865-70, carried many a strange device. The ground was white calico, on which red patterns and lettering were sewn or painted. Favourite designs were a red half-moon, like the crescent of Islam, a five-pointed star representing Tawera, "the bright and morning star," and what was called a Kororia, in shape like the half of a méré-pounamu, or greenstone club, cut longitudinally. These colours had been made in the Waikato during the war, and had been sent round after the manner of the Highlanders' fiery crossto the various tribes in the Island.