In the following years he launched Military_operation equally successful raids Attack on `` iwi '' in Auckland , Thames , Waikato and Lake Rotorua , taking Conquering large numbers of his enemies as slaves , who were put Placing to work Being_in_operation cultivating Cause_to_make_progress and dressing Wearing flax to trade Exchange with Europeans for more muskets .

His success prompted Preventing_or_letting other `` iwi '' to procure Getting firearms in order to mount Placing effective methods of defence Defending and deterrence and the spiral of violence Violence peaked Self_motion in 1832 and 1833 , by which time it had spread Dispersal to all parts of the country except the inland area of the North Island later known as the King Country and remote bays and valleys of Fiordland in the South Island .

Rising Expansion tensions between Pai Mārire followers and conservative Māori led to Causation a number of wars Hostile_encounter between and within Māori `` iwi '' , with `` kūpapa '' or `` loyal '' Māori armed Bearing_arms by the government in a bid to exterminate Destroying the movement .