Smith. — On the History of Otakanini Pa, Kaipara. ,45 



I muri i tenei, ka haere te ope a After this, the army of Te Waru's 



tona teina, a Te Wana-a-riri, ki younger brother, Te Wana-a-riri, 



Ngapuhi ano. Ka tutaki ki a Nga- went to Ngapuhi. They met the 



puhi ki Moremonui ; a, katahi ka latter tribe at Moremonui, and 



whawhai ; ka mate a Ngapuhi. there fought a battle in which Nga- 



Huaina ana te ingoa o tenei pare- puhi were defeated. This battle 



kura ko, " Te-kai-a-te-karoro." Ka was called " The-food-of-the-sea- 



houhia ki te rongo, a, ka ora nga gull." After that peace was made ; 



mea i ora, me Hongi Hika. Otira, those who were not killed escaped, 



ko te rangatira nui o te ope, ko amongst them Hongi Hika. But 



Pokaia, i mate. Heoi ka hoki mai the principal leader of the Ngapuhi 



a Te Wana-a-riri me taua ope katoa array, Pokaia, was killed. So after 



ki Otakanini. this Te Wana-a-riri and his army 



returned to Otakanini. 



Ko nga take enei i haere ai a It was on account of these defeats 



Hongi Hika ki Ingarangi, ki a that Hongi-Hika went to England 



Kingi Hori, ki te tiki pu, paura, me to King George to fetch guns, 



taua kakahu mata. powder, and his coat of mail. 



The expedition under Te Waru took place in the early 

 years of this century, and the cause of it was as follows : 

 Pokaia, a great cliief of Ngapuhi, ardently desired to marry 

 Kararu, a sister of Hongi Hika ; but the lady was obdurate 

 and would not consent. To escape Pokaia' s attentions she 

 married an old man named Tahere, of Kaikohe. Pokaia, wild 

 with rage, adopted a plan of giving vent to his feelings which 

 is not at all uncommon in Maori history. He raised a war 

 party and wantonly attacked Taoho, a chief of Kaihu, and 

 slew many of his people. To obtam revenge for this, Ngati- 

 whatua made the incursion into the Ngapuhi country, in 

 which Te Waru joined as related above, and met with such 

 success that Ngapuhi in honour bound could not do less than 

 wipe out the disgrace that had fallen on their arms. Pokaia 

 and Hongi raised a war party of five hundred strong, and 

 advanced on Kaipara by way of the west coast. They were 

 met at Moremonui, on the beach about ten miles south of 

 Maunganui Bluff, and, after a very severe fight, Ngati-whatua 

 gained the victory, killing Pokaia, Te Waikeri, Hou-awe, Tohi, 

 Tu-karawa, and many other leading men of Ngapuhi. The 

 bodies were left on the beach (such as were not consumed) in 

 such numbers that they were eaten by the seagulls — hence the 

 name of the battle, "Te-kai-a-te-karoro." This defeat was one 

 of the main reasons why Hongi went to England with Mr. 

 Kendall in 1820 to obtain arms with which to chastise Ngati- 

 whatua and the Hauraki Tribes, who had both defeated Nga- 

 puhi very seriously. The result was a series of slaughters — 

 too numerous to mention here — which ended in the com- 

 plete victory of Ngapuhi, and the devastation of the whole of 

 Kaipara and the Auckland Isthmus for many years. 



I te hokinga mai o Hongi Hika On the return of Hongi Hika from 

 i Ingarangi ka whawhaitia e ia nga England he made war on the tribes 

 iwiorunga — ara — o Rotorua, o Nga- of the south — namely, Rotorua, 



