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Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



(me te wiri ano o ratou), " E ! ka 

 kapi te whenua i te nui o te ope !" 



Katahi a Tauhia ka karanga atu, 

 *' Moku anake ano ena hoa-wha- 

 whai ; kahore mo koutou." No 

 reira, ka nui te hari o ana hoa, a, 

 ka mutu te mataku. 



Katahi ka peke atu a Tauhia ki 

 te patu i te ope a Takurua. Toko- 

 rua ki te hinganga i tana patunga 

 kotahi ; no konei ka whati te ope, 

 a, patua haeretia e ratou ko ana 

 hoa, a, hore rawa atu he tangata i 

 era. Me te rangatira hoki, me 

 Takurua, mate katoa. 



Katahi a Koieie ka piki ki runga 

 ki tetehi puke, ki Puke-kowhiwhi, 

 ka karauga, " Kei te whetu au e 1 

 kei te marama !" No reira i rongo 

 mai ai tauaiwi — aNgati-whatua — i 

 matau ai hoki, kua hinga te pare- 

 kura a Tauhia. Na, ka whakahua 

 te hari a Tauhia ratou ko on a hoa 

 i muri i te hinganga o ta ratou 

 parekura : — 



Aue ! uhi mai te waero ! 

 A, ko roto ko taku puta ! 

 A, he puta aha te puta ? 

 A, he puta tohu te puta, 

 A, e rua nei, ko te puta-e ! 



I muri i tenei, ka hoki mai a 

 Tauhia ki tona pa, ki Otakanini, a, 

 taea noatia tona matenga. 



out to Tauhia (at the same time 

 tremhling for themselves), "Ah! 

 the land is covered b}' the greatness 

 of this army !" 



Tauhia replied to them, "Those 

 enemies are coming for me alone, 

 not for 30U." In consequence of 

 this his companions were very glad, 

 and they no longer feared. 



Tauhia then sprang forward to 

 combat the army of Takurua. Two 

 of them fell at the first blow ; hence 

 the army fled, and they were fol- 

 lowed up by Tauhia and his com- 

 panions, who killed them as they 

 ran, so that not one escaped. The 

 chief Takurua was also killed with 

 the rest. 



Then Koieie ascended a hill 

 named Puke-kowhiwhi and shouted 

 out, " I am as the stars, as the 

 moon !" Hearing this, her tribe — 

 Ngati-whatua — knew at once that 

 Tauhia had won his battle. Tauhia 

 and his companions then repeated 

 their song of triumph after the 

 battle : — 



[I do not attempt to translate this 

 — the words have no sense, the 

 meaning it originally had being 

 lost. It is not by any means an 

 uncommon hari or species of song 

 used to accompany the war-dance.] 



After this, Tauhia returned to his 

 pa at Otakanini, and dwelt there 

 until his death. 



Tauhia, mentioned above, was the grandson of Pokopoko- 

 whiti-te-ra, and son of his daughter Koieie, who married 

 Whai-whata. Tauhia hved four generations ago ; many of his 

 descendants hved at Te Kawau, Kaipara, in 1860. Te Waru 

 was Tauhia's son by his second wife, Matangi. 



He toko m ah a nga uri o Tauhia, 

 erangi, e rua anake nga mea i liaere 

 ki te whawhai — ara — ko Te Waru, 

 ko Te Waiia-a-riri. 



Ko ta Te Waru nei ope, i aim ki 

 Ngapuhi, a, lioro katoa te pa o Nga- 

 puhi. Te ingoa o te pa, ko Te Tu- 

 huna. I muri i tera, ka horo ano 

 tetahi atu pa ; te ingoa o te pa, ko 

 Tai-a mai. No konei ka houhia te 

 rongo, a, ka hoki mai a Te Waru 

 me taua ope katoa ki Otakanini. 

 Huaina ana te ingoa tena pare- 

 kura " Ko te patu turoro." 



Tauhia had many offspring, but 

 only two of them ever engaged in 

 war, namely, Te Waru and Te 

 Wana-ariri. 



Te Waru's army went to the Nga- 

 puhi country, where he took a pa 

 belonging to that tribe, called Te 

 Tuhuna. After this he took another 

 pa, the name of which was Tai-a- 

 mai. In consequence of this, peace 

 was made, and Te Waru and his 

 army returned to their pa at Otaka- 

 nini. These battles were called 

 " Te-patu-turoro." 



