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with one of Kahungunu's people, who Hved in Kakaparaoa Pa^ 

 on the Waikohu-Matawai Block, near Turauga. They had. 

 nothing but fern-root to eat, and Taneroa constantly repined 

 for the abundant food at her brother's place at Opotiki ; so 

 her husband, Eougomainotai, one day said, " Well, if food is 

 so plentiful there, let us go to Tutamure." Accordingly they 

 went, but on arrival were only given some cold kumara to eat. 

 Eongomtiinotai exclaimed, "If this is all we can get here, 

 better to have lived on the fern-root at Kakaparaoa." He 

 was rery angry, and returned to his own place, stealing on 

 the way some seed-kumara belonging to Tutamure. By-and- 

 by, when Taneroa heard that he had an abundance of food, 

 she followed him ; but he, without speaking one w^ord to her, 

 %vent off to Turanga. Thither she followed, so he moved on 

 to Nukutaurua. She overtook him there, and he fled towards 

 Wairoa, telling his people to kill Taneroa if she persisted in 

 following after him, and tliey did so. 



When Tutamure heard of his sister's death he assembled a 

 war party and killed a number of Kahungunu's people, even- 

 tually attacking that chief in his pa, called Maungaakahia, at 

 Nukutaurua. As the ope (war party) drew near, Kahungunu 

 asked who was the leader, and Tutamure answered, " Tama i 

 hongia te Whaharua ka rangaranga te viuri, ka tere tamure " 

 (When the north-east wind blows, and the sea-breeze drives 

 the waves into ridges, then is the tamure (snapper) seen). 

 The opposing parties fought, and Tutamure's wooden spear 

 (huata) and taiaha were both broken, so he armed himself with 

 a patu paraoa (a w^hale-bone weapon), exclaiming, " Taua i te 

 huata, taua i te ake, tangohia i te ika nui a tu kanapa napa 

 ana te paraoa ki runga o Maungaakahia, ka ora taua nei ka 

 nenehu" (Having fought in vain with spear and taiaha, then 

 seizing weapons made from the whale, the great fish of the 

 war god, the whale-bone flashes over Maungaakahia, I triumph 

 over my foes, who disappear). This boast or speech of Tuta- 

 mure's passed into a proverb, and his descendants hence- 

 forward were known as Te Panenehu. After the fight Kahu- 

 ngunu sued for peace, and, Tutamure consenting, Kahungunu 

 offered him his sister, Tauhei, to wife. Now, Tutamure, 

 though an exceedingly brave man, was an ill-favoured and 

 insignificant-looking person ; and when he went to a spring 

 <;lose by to adorn himself and saw his reflection in the clear 

 water his heart failed him lest Tauhei should not return his 

 affection ; so he said to his young brother Taipunoa, who was 

 handsome, "Take you Kahungunu's sister Tauhei for your 

 wife, so that peace may be established between us and them." 

 Taipunoa did so, and Tauhei bore him a son, whose naine was 

 Mahaki, who begat Ihu and AVhakara, from whom are de- 

 scended all the Hitangua, Mahaki, and Ngapotiki Tribes. The 



