100 Ti-ansactions. 



advice, advanced, bent on mischief. They attacked the pa Ota-aue " 

 [on the Awa-rua Creek, about half a mile below Putiki], " where they 

 captured all the inhabitants, and sent them as slaves under escort to Rangi- 

 tikei. Then on again they went, determined to take the large pa at Pari- 

 kino named Tuke-a-maui, which was known to be full of people. It took 

 the war-party several days to effect an entrance, but they eventually dragged 

 down parts of the palisading by tying flax ropes to the middle of short 

 pieces of wood, throwing them over, and then pulling. After this victory 

 the war-party retired, carrying with them many slaves, and satisfied that 

 at least one of the taniwJta's heads had been considerably damaged. The 

 old pa Tuke-a-mavii stood on the rising ground above Kai-tangata, the old 

 name of the pa now known as Pari-kino. Pari-kino Avas a pa on the clifi 

 side of the river, opposite Kai-tangata. 



" Now for the other head : Flushed with their recent conquests, Te 

 Ahuru now decided to give his friends a skirmish with Rangi-tane ; so he 

 again gathered his Ngati Apa force, and, joining with Wai-rarapa, they 

 marched away, having previously sent out spies, two by two, who were to 

 hunt the district, and let the main body know where the most people had 

 congregated. Soon the scouts returned with their report to Orini (near 

 Tahora-iti), which the taua had now reached, and informed the leaders that 

 all the people in the district had vacated the small pas and fled to Rai-kapua, 

 a strongly fortified pa on the Upper Manawa-tu River, having a high inac- 

 cessible cliff immediately behind it. So the war-party laid siege to this pa, 

 and carried on the operations with such fury that in a very short space an 

 entrance was gained, and the slaughter of the defenders commenced. Alto- 

 gether two hundred poor WTetches were killed, and one hundred taken as 

 slaves ; and again the dead were piled up in a row four deep, with the captives 

 on top. Then said Whata-horo to Ahuru, ' There is your second payment. 

 Divide this pile into two equal parts, and bind the dead on the shoulders 

 of the living.' So he gave half of the captives to the Ngati Apa party and 

 kept haK himself, and the two tribes separated, each forcing their slaves 

 to carry home their dead comrades, who were no doubt destined to gTace 

 the board at the first feast. Thus was the taniwha's second head destroyed. 

 The descendants of the slaves captured on that occasion are still to be found 

 at Pori-rua and Wai-rarapa. 



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KO TE MATA TENEI A Tui, MATENGA I TAHTTRI AI RaI-KAPTJA. 



[Tui's Song before the Capture of Rai-kapua.] 



Takoto paranga he matuku 



Takoto paranga he matuku 



Ka whaterotero mai te arero huare ki waho 



Hora ana te huruhuru o tona ure 



Te hokinga mai o te Parekura i te koru ra, 



Aha lia he pane whiti, aha ha he pane taonga, 



He niho tete mai i runga o te turuturii, 



A taina a he aha ka nene ka tangi koe e. 



This waiaia is a vision and a prophecy as to what the result of the assault 

 on Rai-kapua would be. 



After this, a woman of rank belonging to Ngati Wairiki was killed near 

 Turakina by Ngaiti Whiti, so Tama-te-kura collected people from Whanga- 

 nui and Manga- whero to avenge her death. The party travelled to Rangi- 

 tikei and took a pa called Toko-rangi (Whanga-ehu), where they killed the 

 chief Poa-tawa and a great number of people, and after the usual celebra- 

 tions returned home. After this Tawhero-haki was killed in retaliation ; 



