Mair. — On the Ancient Tribe Te Paneneliu. 



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I will give my genealogy from Ngatorohaka 

 Ngatorohaka. 



I 

 Hitewhatu. 



• In 1864 about eigbt hundred rebel natives from the East Cape, 

 Tekaha, and Opotiki came up the coast with the object of forcing their 

 way through the Arawa country to assist the King natives in Waikato. 

 The loyal Arawa defeated them at Lake Rotoiti, and drove them back to 

 the coast. They then attacked Maketu, but were again defeated and 

 driven back towards Opotiki. The Arawa overtook them at Tekaokaoroa, 

 near Matata, and killed between sixty and seventy, pursuing them to 

 Te-Awa-a-te-Atua, and capturing their canoes. One of their principal 

 chiefs, Te Aporotanga, was desperately wounded and taken prisoner. On 

 the Arawa side, Tohi te Ururangi Wiuiata Pekamu, a man of high rank 

 and a great warrior, was mortally wounded while directing the attack. 

 About a dozen others were v;?ounded, including Apiata, a Ngatiwhakane 



