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Sealers' War
The Sealers' War, also known as the "War of the Shirt", was a conflict in southern New Zealand that started in 1810. It was started by a Māori chief, after he stole a red shirt, a knife and several other items from the sealing vessel known as the ''Sydney Cove'' in Otago Harbour. The war gave rise to the view, among some Europeans, that the Māori were treacherous by nature.〔Robert McNab, ''Murihiku'', Invercargill, NZ: 1907,p.263 for the suggestion the attacks arose from a supposedly treacherous nature of Māori.〕 The true cause was revealed by the discovery of the Creed manuscript in 2003, which records the views of Māori who were alive at the time of the events.〔The text of the Creed manuscript is reproduced in Peter Entwisle's, ''Taka: A Vignette Life of William Tucker 1784–1817'',Dunedin, NZ: Port Daniel Press, 2005 as appendix vi, pp. 128–131. Charles Creed, MS papers, 1187/201, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ.〕
==The initial incident==
Late in 1810, the Sydney Cove, an English sealing vessel, was anchored in Otago Harbour while its crew were working at Cape Saunders on the Otago Peninsula. Māori were in the habit of visiting such vessels to trade for pork and potatoes. During one such visit, a Māori chief, Te Wareripirau, according to one of Creed's informants, or Te Wahia, according to the other, stole a red shirt and a knife amongst other items. Some of the sailors attacked the chief with cutlasses. He "fled from them with his bowels protruding through the wound in the side" and died. "The Europeans fled, by ship & boats to the Molyneux" – the modern Clutha River Mouth – where they attacked and killed another chief, Te Pahi. They also left behind a boy, James Caddell,〔("The story of James Caddell..." ), Te Ara〕 known in New Zealand history as a Pākehā-Māori.
At Waipapa Point one of the ''Sydney Coves gangs landed and proceeded overland to the Mataura mouth, where they were surprised and killed by Māori under Honegai. The ''Sydney Cove'' paused at Stewart Island before continuing its voyage. Men from the ''Brothers'' who had been in the vicinity of Otago Harbour proceeded south late in 1810. They were seeking a passing ship to take them back to Sydney, but four of them were surprised and killed, supposedly just because they were Europeans.〔The quotes are from the Creed manuscript, cited above. The identification of some of the personnel and ships is made in Peter Entwisle, ''Taka: a Vignette Life of William Tucker 1784–1817'', Dunedin, NZ: Port Daniel Press, 2005, pp. 69–71.〕
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