Praise for Patuone (Auckland) Multi-Cache

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Growly Bear: As this cache has been out of action for too long, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

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Hidden : 3/6/2007
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Praise for Patuone
This cache was inspired by a geocache 6 km further north called “Patuone Park” GCZE0R which marks a place where Patuone lived in his later life. To find this puzzle/offset cache you need to go to where he is buried and make some observations.

Now finding Glyn’s cache spurred me to checkout the history of this man and a fascinating history it is. What a remarkable life and what changes he witnessed.
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Eruera Maihi Patuone (c 1770 - 1872)
A Ngapuhi warrior chief who claimed to have gone aboard James Cook's ship at the Bay of Islands as a young child. His tombstone here, where he was buried in 1870s, puts his age at 96 (But if the Captain Cook recollection is true then another’s claim that he was 109 could be a more accurate estimate).
Although he had taken a leading part in the intertribal “Musket Wars” around 1820 he realized that the maori were wiping themselves out. One estimate is 60,000 died in the fighting over a 20 year period .He was one of a number of chiefs to petition the English Monarch to establish a colony and hopefully stop the intertribal warfare. He was also one of the first chiefs to sign the Treaty of Waitangi and within a few weeks was baptised by Henry Williams.
Along with his younger brother Tamiti Waka Nene he was responsible for saving the early settlers of Northland from a possible attack by Hone Heke and Kawiti after the flagpole chopping incidents at Russell in the mid 1840s .The pakeha friendly maoris kept Hone and Kawiti in check until troops and artillery were shipped in and then the friendly maoris took a part in the ultimate defeat of Hone and Kawiti at the various battle sites in Northland.
From then on he fought on the side of the Pakeha and Grey arranged for him to settle on the North Shore of the Waitemata Harbour, to act as a buffer against war parties from the north. Twice over the years Patuone's men garrisoned Auckland City and he was later awarded 80 ha in Takapuna and a pension of £100 ($300) a year. When he died he was buried with full military honours.
A Google search will bring up a wealth of information among which are some interesting references a little at odds with the more conventional history. Take a look at: (visit link)

OK, the listed co-ords will take you to his grave and there you need to count the points on the iron railing that surrounds it and add 4 to get X.

Look at the ENGLISH section of the inscription

Take the first letter of the fifth line of the English = Y
Take the first letter of the eighth line of the English = Z
(Note:use what is actually the 2nd letter as I missed the fact that the first letter is almost faded out. The inscription has since been cleaned.

Then head X metres in direction YZ "True" (not magnetic direction)

There look for the cache in a cammo painted 1 ltr plastic container,

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ybj oruvaq n fvmnoyr gerr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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