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place, and Hine-tu-a-lioanga (the Lady of the Eubber), to whom 

 the stone Whaiapu belonged, became excessively enraged with 

 Ngahue and with his stone Poutini. At last she drove Ngahue 

 out of the place, and Ngahue departed to a strange land, 

 taking his jade-stone, followed, however, by Hine-tu-a-hoanga. 

 Ngahue arrived at Tuhua (Mayor Island, in the Bay of Plenty ; 

 it is the Island of Obsidian) with his stone ; and Hine-tu-a- 

 hoanga also landed there, and began to drive him away. 

 Then Ngahue sought a place where his jade-stone might 

 remain in peace, and he found in the sea this island Aotearoa 

 (North Island), and contemplated landing there. Thinking he 

 would there be too close to his enemy, and lest they should 

 quarrel again, he left, carrying off his stone. So he carried it off 

 with him, and they coasted along, and at length arrived at 

 Arahura (on the west coast of the South Island), and he made 

 there an everlasting resting-place for his jade-stone. Then he 

 broke off a portion of his jade-stone, and with it returned ; 

 and as he coasted along he at length reached Wairere (believed 

 to be on the east coast of the North Island), and he visited 

 Wangaparoa and Tauranga, and returned thence direct to 

 Hawaiki, and reported that he had discovered a new country 

 which produced the moa and jade-stone in abundance. He 

 now manufactured two sharp axes from his jade-stone, named 

 Tutauru and Hauhau-te-rangi. He manufactured some por- 

 tions of one piece into images for neck-ornaments (hei-tiki), 

 and some portions into ear-ornaments. The name of one of 

 these ear-ornaments was Kaukaumatua, which was recently in 

 the possession of Te Heuheu, and was only lost in 1846, when 

 he was killed with so many of his tribe by a landslip. [This 

 has since been recovered.] The axe Tutauru was only lately 

 lost by Purohokura and his brother Eeretai, who were 

 descended from Tama-ihu-toroa. When Ngahue, returning, 

 arrived again at Hawaiki, he found them all engaged in war ; 

 and when they heard of his description of the beauty of 

 this country of Aotea some of them determined to come 

 here. 



They then felled a totara-tree in Eorotonga, which lies on 

 the other side of Hawaiki, that they might build the iVrawa 

 from it. The tree was felled, and thus the canoe was hewn 

 out from it and finished. The names of the men who built 

 the canoe were Eata, Wahie-roa, Ngahue, Parata, and some 

 other skilful men who helped to hew out the Arawa and 

 to finish it. The Tainui was also built by Hotu-roa ; 

 also, other canoes — viz., Matatua, Takitumu, Kura-hau-po, 

 Toko-maru, and Matawhaorua. These, the Maori his- 

 torians say, are the names of the canoes in which their 

 forefathers departed from Hawaiki and crossed to this Island. 

 The axes with which their canoes were built were made from 



