Part 3 New Zealand Chapter 12 Strangely Liberated

JUST as the sun was sinking beyond Lake Taupo, behind the peaks of Tuhahua and Pukepapu, the captives were conducted back to their prison. They were not to leave it again till the tops of the Wahiti Ranges were lit with the first fires of day.They had one night in which to prepare for death. Overcome as they were with horror and fatigue, they too