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tribes. Flushed with victory, they still pushed on in hope of further success, 

 when they were met and defeated by another taua of Ngati Apa at the 

 battle of Te Taku-o-te-rangi, at a place called Korero-mai-waho (now Great - 

 ford). This defeat was avenged at the battle of One-puhi, where the com- 

 bined forces of Ngati Hau-iti and Ngati Whiti overthrew Ngati Apa, who 

 were not strong enough to resist them at that place, but who followed Ngati 

 Hau-iti on their return journey, and overtook them at Pari-roa, on the 

 O-roua ; but the Ngati Apa force, under the chief Takiao, was defeated, 

 and their leader slain. Some time after this fight at Pari-roa there was 

 another great engagement, at Kai-inanga (a pa near the junction of the 

 Hau-tapu and Rangi-tikei rivers), in which Ngati Apa were victorious, 

 although fighting against the combined tribes ; but before this, and during 

 the interval between the two battles, there came from the north the Tu-whare 

 — Te Rau-paraha expedition under the leadership of Waka Nene, Patu-one, 

 Te Rau-paraha, Tu-whare, and others. They had a few guns in the party, 

 and, as this was the first time these weapons were seen on this coast, the 

 bavoc they \\T.-ought was tremendous. This taua came down somewhere 

 about 1819 or 1820, and it was this journey that gave Te Rau-paraha the 

 idea of migrating to Kapiti, to be near the centre of European trade, which 

 idea he put into practice about 1822, when his whole tribe (the Ngati Toa) 

 removed thither. In order to strengthen his position, he induced the Ngati 

 Rau-kawa to make hehes (some of which we are able to describe) to his 

 newly acquired land. From this time up to about 1825 the great Ngati 

 Toa chief was actively combining business with pleasure in endeavotiring 

 to exterminate the whole of the Mua-upoko Tribe. Then the Ngati Rau- 

 kawa chief Te Whata-nui, who had previously accompanied two or three 

 •of the hehes, intervened, and stayed his hand by taking up his residence at 

 Horo-whenua, where eventually he died. Here he was looked up to as an 

 ally and protector by the Mua-upoko, which indeed he was, for it was 

 certainly he who saved these people from annihilation. Full accounts of 

 these afiairs have been published in " The Life and Times of Rau-paraha,'^ 

 and also in the Jour. Polynesian Soc. in a fine paper by Mr. S. Percy Smith, 

 entitled " Wars of the Northern against the Southern Tribes " ;* therefore 

 little more need be said. 



Before adding a few brief notes of these wars, some further details of 

 fighting that occurred prior to these events can be given. " After the 

 capture of Kiri-weka," said Major Kemp, in evidence given before the Land 

 Court at Whanga-nui, " my grandparent went with a war-party to a place 

 called Opetaka, on the Rangi-tikei River, and there killed Taka-rere and 

 Jlau-awa, and made prisoners of Ro-onga, Te Maka-taha-hapa, Pu-ronga, 

 and others of the Ngati Wliiti, Ngati Tama, and Ngati Hau-iti tribes. 

 Afterwards took place the expedition of Te Mawai, the ancestor of Mohi 

 Matene. He and his people went to Awa-rua, and, as visitors, stayed a 

 «hort time with the people there, until one day Tara-mai-nuku said to Te 

 Mawai ' Get out yom* weapons.' By these words Te Mawai interpreted 

 trouble, so he got up with his spear in one hand and a pouivhenua in the 

 other, warned his company, and then advanced to the assault-at-arms. In 

 the fray that followed, Te Mawai killed Tara-mai-nuku, and then killed 

 all the people of the pa ; and no payment was ever exacted from the 

 Whanga-nui tribes for their victory. 



* I am greatly indebted to Mr. Smith tor the use of his notes, also for his many 

 •corrections and suggestions. 



