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| | Our first great wretch by Steve Braunias | New Zealand Listener |
 | | Their advocacy is sometimes of a high nuttiness – "It is hardly FitzRoy's fault that he was born too late to discover Australia", "If it had not been for Robert FitzRoy, the name Charles Darwin would be remembered, if at all, as that of a country parson with an interest in natural history. |
 | | And then slaughter commenced, as Te Rangihaeata persuaded Te Rauparaha to execute the prisoners, including Thompson, "who, typically, tore his hair out in his death agonies", as Philip Temple writes in A Sort of Conscience. |
 | | Te Rauparaha and Te Rangihaeata, meanwhile, moved to Wellington, where they would fight for land in the Hutt Valley. |
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