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On 1 October 1834, a prisoner exchange took place with Betty and her daughter being yielded in exchange for the return of Oaoiti. In order to rescue Guard's son, the ships attacked the pā at
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sailed from Sydney on a rescue mission with three officers and 65 soldiers, and joined by Jacky Guard and his men. The leader of the mission, Captain Robert
Lambert, was under orders from Governor Bourke to effect the rescue by force if peaceful means were not effective. He also decided not to offer
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reporting in lurid detail that Betty was taken naked away into captivity, did not see her son for two months and witnessed the cannibalism of dead crew members. Other reports however said she was well-treated during her time in captivity and that she lived under the protection of the chief Oaoiti as
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Guard is thought to have been the first woman of
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Guard returned to Sydney with her husband and children. Her daughter died eight months after the events, and there were rumours that Guard gave birth to twins fathered by Oaoiti. She had her second son with Jacky Guard in
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island on 21 September 1834, and on 25 September found Betty and her daughter at Te Namu pā. The pā was attacked and burnt down by the soldiers, Oaoiti was bayoneted and kidnapped by Jacky and his men, and Guard's Māori captors took her further along the coast to another pā at
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Guard had five more children with Jacky, who died in 1857, and was buried at Kākāpō Bay after her death in 1870 at the age of 55. Near the end of her life she was described as "a most remarkable woman, tall and thin and very alert". In 2005 New
Zealand author
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