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He  was  injured,  but  seemed  to  be  okay.   He  was
            taken over to a truck where his wife and child waited to
            comfort him.
                I was in total shock and in disbelief.  Thoughts were
            rushing through my head.  It all happened so fast.  Did
            that moko man, affect that explosion  with  his fierce
            voice and actions?  Was I hallucinating, or had I just
            witnessed a miracle?

                Pita walked  over and expressed his gratitude.   He
            obviously had a great respect for this moko man, who I
            later found out was named  Tu-Manawanui  -  Tu for
            short.  As I stood there still pretty numb from what had
            just happened, Pita walked over to me and again started
            acting like his usual, jerky self.
                He began questioning me. Why was I there?  Then
            he reprimanded me for taking a job away from someone
            who wasn’t able to feed their family.

                Well, I had, had enough and let him know that my
            working for Professor Armstrong on  my thesis on
            kumara in no way affected any other New Zealander’s
            job status.   I myself  was questioning how on earth he
            was there.  It wound up he was working for one of his
            many cousins who owned the property where the
            explosion had just  occurred.   I asked  him to please
            never rescue me again, as the abuse wasn’t worth it.



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