(en) McNab quotes Captain Berry saying, "We had seen the mangled fragments and fresh bones of our countrymen, with the marks even of the teeth remaining on them". Chapter 10: The Massacre of the Boyd, 1809 and 1810, in From Tasman To Marsden: A History of Northern New Zealand from 1642 to 1818, by Robert McNab. Published by J. Wilkie & Company, Dunedin, 1914.