Te Rangi Hiroa. — Maori Food-supplies of Lake Rotorua. 433 



Art. XL VIII. — Maori Food-supplies of Lake Rotorua, with Methods of 

 obtaining them, and Usages and Customs appertaining thereto. 



By Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck), D.S.O., M.D. 



[Bead before the Auckland Institute, 15th December, 1920 ; received by Editor, 31st December, 

 1920 ; issued separately, 12th August, 1921.] 



Plates LXIV, LXV. 



Discovery and Settlement op the Rotorua District. 



Ngatoroirangi, the tohunga and navigator of the " Arawa " canoe, was 

 the first from that canoe to explore the Taupo district. Kahumata-niomoe, 

 the younger son of Tama-te-kapua, also journeyed to Taupo. On his 

 return to Maketu he saw Lake Rotorua and named it Te Moana-nui-a- 

 Kahu (the Great Lake of Kahu). The real settlers were Ika, one of the 

 crew of the " Arawa," and his son Maru-punga-nui, who came via Lake 

 Rotoiti, and who lived at Okapua, where there is a pool named Te Koro- 

 koro o Maru-punga-nui. The following genealogy will help us to follow 

 matters : — 



Tania-te-kapua Ika 



l 

 . 1 



Tuhoro-mata-kaka Kahu-mata-momoe Maru-punga-nui 



Ihenga. Tawake-moe-tahanga Tua -rotorua. 



Uenuku 



Rangitihi 



I 

 Tuliourangi 



Uenuku -kopako 



Whakaue. 



Ihenga, the grandson of Tama-te-kapua, to whom is given the credit of 

 the discovery, did not come to the lake until Maru-punga-nui and his son 

 Tua-rotorua were firmly established there. Ihenga had been away with 

 his father and grandfather at Moehau, Cape Colville, and came on to 

 Maketu after the death of Tama-te-kapua. There he married Kakara, 

 the daughter of his uncle Kahu. According to Grey's narrative, he went 

 out hunting in the direction of Lake Rotoiti. His dog went farther on 

 and reached the lake, where it had a meal of fresh-water fish. On its 

 return to Maketu, fish were seen in its vomit, and hence Ihenga surmised 

 an inland lake or sea. It is curious, if his father-in-law Kahu had seen 

 the lake, that a dog should be the first to inform Ihenga of its existence. 

 Another version states that Tama-te-kapua, without seeing it, named it 

 after his son. However, Ihenga set off and came upon Lake Rotoiti 

 at a beach called Paripari-te-tai, where he saw the footprints of his dog. 

 He returned to Maketu, organized a party, and came on past Rotoiti to 

 Lake Rotorua, where he built a pa at Whakarongo-patete. His pool for 



