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niaihi, ' Arise ! ' And Nga-maihi returned to their homes. 

 They left the old man behind. He entered the water and by 

 his magic power raised the wind (uru-karaerae) in furious 

 violence. Thus appeared the wind, the lightning, the thunder, 

 the hail. The sea' was torn up. That storm caught the 

 fishing-fleet anchored on the hapuku-grounds, and utterly de- 

 stroyed it and the people thereof. So fell Tauranga ; and the 

 eating of the body of Te Rangi-kaku was avenged. Wrought 

 by Te Hahae, the works of the wizards of old. Friend ! This 

 is the end." 



Certain tribes are famed for their knowledge of witchcraft. 

 Among these are the two divisions of Ngati-awa, and also the 

 section of Ngati-kahungunu which lives in Te Wairoa district, 

 on the East Coast. " Wairoatapoko rau" is a saying applied 

 to that district. It is equivalent to " Wairoa, the engulfer of 

 myriads," so many have been slain by the dark arts of those 

 people. A sub-tribe of the Wairoa people, Ngati-hika by 

 name, who lived at Te Mahia, are said to have made them- 

 selves so objectionable to their neighbours by means of their 

 magic powers that the latter rose up and expelled them. 

 They, or a portion of them, came to Tuhoeland, where they 

 were given wives and settled down, thus becoming merged in 

 the Tuhoe Tribe. 



Only this morning I had a visit from three old women of 

 Tuhoe. Passing by my camp, they called in to exchange 

 greetings, and to weep over a photograph of one of their 

 number who but recently drank of the waters of Tane-pi and 

 lifted the world-old trail for Te Reinga. Anyhow, we got 

 talking, and some questions of mine led to the following narra- 

 tive from one of my visitors : When she was a young girl, 

 eight years or so of age, she was ivhahapakuwhatia, or be- 

 trothed, by her tribe to a man of the Ngati-awa Tribe. Her 

 aunt took her to that tribe, where they remained some time, 

 but she, not liking the man, returned with her aunt to their 

 own tribe. Some time after a party of Ngati-awa visited Rua- 

 tahuna, and one of their number abstracted a few threads of 

 her clothing, which fragment was taken away to serve as an 

 ohonga, or medium. Thus she and several of her relatives and 

 friends were bewitched by Ngati-awa. The case called for 

 instant action. One of the tribal tohunga, or wise men, who 

 was kauivaka, or medium, of the atua (god, demon) known 

 as Taimana, took all the patients to Matuahu pa, or fort, on 

 the shores of Waikare-moana (where he made them live for 

 several seasons). He said, "Let a cord and a mussel-shell 

 be sought." These were found, and he proceeded to avert the 

 magic of Ngati-awa and destroy the wizard. He bled each 

 of the patients on the right shoulder and smeared the blood on 

 the cord, which, together with the shell, he carried off to work 



