74 Transactio?is. 



Art. XI. — Early History of Rangitikei, and Notes on the Ngaii Apa Trihe^ 



By T. W. DowNES. 



[Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, (ith October, 1909.] 



Summary of Contents. 



Chapter I. — IntrocUn-tion — Ngati Apa district — Kura-haupo canoe — Table 1 — Former 

 inhabitants — Taniivha Tutae-poroporo — Haii's journey — Tamatea's travels — Custom 

 known as uruuru-ichenua — Tama-kopiri's wars and death — Table 2, showing 

 Tamatea. Tama-kopiri, &c. — Journeyings of Ma-tangi — Table 3, showing the ancestor 

 Ma-tangi, &c. 



Chapter II. — Apa-hapai-taketake's theft — Resulting troubles — Table 4. showing the'time 

 of Awa-tope — Residence at Roto-a-ira — Various fights around Roto-a-ira — Ngati 

 Apa extending south — Hau-iti — Fighting relating to Hau-iti — Table 5, showing 

 Hau-iti's position. 



Chapter III. — Whare-pu-rakau's time — Defeat of Ngati Wahine Tribe — Punaki-ao — 

 Invasion of Awa-rua by Ngati Tama-wahine — Defeat of invaders — Dispute between 

 Tahuna and Whare-pu-rakau — Talnina's defeat — Whare-pu-rakau's death — Whanga- 

 nui's invasion and defeat at Moa-whango — Tini-o-te-kotiri fight at the Potaka Pa — 

 — Resulting troubles — Dispute between Rangi-pa-whai-tiri and wives — Tukai-ora's 

 capture — Table No. 6 — Death of Te Kiore and Hoko-o-te-rangi — Capture of Kiri- 

 weka — Series of engagements between Ngati Apa and Ngati Hau-iti — Tu-whare- 

 Te Rau-paraha expedition — Te Mawai's visit to Awa-rua — The Kai-inanga fight — • 

 The bewitching of Ngati Hau-iti by Ngati Apa. 



Chapter IV. — Tne Ngati Rau-kawa migration known as Heke Karihi-tahi — Death of 

 Ika-whaka-ariki — The bewitching by Rangi-te-muri — Defeat of Rangi-tane at 

 Turaki-awatea — Rangi-tane's stratagem — Murder of Rangi-haxi-tu — Defeat of Rangi- 

 tane at Harakeke Pa — The Tuke-a-maui fight at Pari-kino — Te Hina, of the Kauae 

 Subtribe, causes trouble ■ — Custom called iunutunu ki te ahi — Civil fighting at 

 Awa-mate — The murder of Kakaho. 



Chapter V. — Te Hakeke revenges the death of Rangi-hau-tu — Table 7, showing the 

 ancestor Kaiuxe — Capture of Kaewa and Ngoki — Skirmish with Mua-upoko — More 

 civil troubles — Te Rau-paraha settles on Kapiti^ — Capture of Te Hakeke — Defeat 

 of Ngati Apa by Rangi-tane — Murder of Hatoa by Rangi-tane- — Ngati Apa's revenge. 



Chapter VI. — Battle of Manga-toetoe — Battle of Taku-te-rangi — The third Rau-kawa 

 heke (Heke Mai-raro) — Hao-whenua fight — Birth of Kawana Hunia — Oriori or 

 lullaby — Te Hakeke a peacemaker — Kohuru-po battle — Table 8, showing Taka- 

 rangi's descent — Death of Te Ao-kehu — Raii-kawa heke (Houhou rongo ki Hao- 

 whenua) — Final skirmishes. 



Illustrations. 



Plate IX. — Sketch-map illustrating history, and showing most of the places named. 

 Plate X. — Sketch-map from very old Maori sketches, showing early occupation of lower 



Whanga-ehu and Turakina Valleys by Ngati Apa people. 

 Plate XI. — A photograph of an old plan of Kai-kokopu Lake. The chief pa stood on 



the narrow neck between the lagoons, and is interesting as being the last place in 



the district where remnants of ancient palisading can be seen ; the lines of stumps 



I'Unning into the lake still being in good preservation. 



Chapter I. 



It lias been my good fortune to have the curtain of obscurity of the long- 

 ago past slightly drawn aside for me, and so to gain a glance into the dim 

 and fast-fading history of our Island at a time when it was to us an en- 

 chanted, dreamlike land. 



Few people have had so much written about them, in so comparatively 

 few years, too, as the Natives of New Zealand ; but there is something fasci- 

 nating in the old Maori who sits half-dreaming, conjuring up those other 

 days when fighting and feasting Avere almost all that was worth living for,, 

 and telling us of them in stories handed down by his forefathers. 



