content: At the age of seventeen, during a struggle for succession within the tribe, he was poisoned by his uncle. After being saved by his mother using manuka bark, his disposition grew increasingly sullen. In order to obtain gunpowder to resist the colonizers, he led thirty warriors in a raid on the French merchant ship "Amethyst," where he acquired flintlock rifles for the first time and learned basic French. However, he discovered that the captain was secretly trading Maori slaves and sacrificed all the captives to the volcano god.