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but who is never given as a member of the crew of that vessel. 

 His descendants are numerous among the Tuhoe Tribe. 



Another old-time voyager was Pou-rangahua, of Turanga, 

 Poverty Bay, he who married Kanioro, a sister of Taukata, of 

 whom more anon. Puketapu, of Waikare-moana, states that 

 Pou came in " Horouta," but that is not credible if he was a 

 contemporary of Taukata and Hoaki. Pou was a chief of the 

 ancient people of Turanga, and he went to Hawaiki — that is 

 to say, to the isles of the north — in order to obtain the Jcumara. 

 It is not known how Kanioro reached New Zealand. She may 

 have come with her brothers, who brought the knowledge of 

 the Jcumara to the Toi tribes of Whakatane, though Puketapu 

 maintains that she came with Pou on " Horouta." The singular 

 legend of Pou-rangahua and his adventurous trip hither from 

 Hawaiki on ' Rua-kapanga " I have recorded elsewhere. It 

 may also be found in that most modern classic tome, " Maori 

 Lore," the production of one Izett, who inserted it, without 

 acknowledgment and wo fully garbled, in that eccentric and 

 ridiculous work. 



Tamarau-apu was another voyager to New Zealand from the 

 isles of Polynesia in times long passed away, but of whom little 

 is known at the present time : — 



Tamarau-apu 



I 

 Tama-ewa 



Te Mahoihoi-o-te-rangi. 



This Mahoihoi was a contemporary of Waitaha-ariki-kore of 

 the " Paepae-ki-Rarotonga " canoe. 



Poutini is said to have been one of the earliest visitors to 

 New Zealand, but his name and doings are so surrounded by 

 myth that no clear account concerning him can be given. He 

 is sometimes said to have been the discoverer of the greenstone, 

 while many speak of him as being the personification of that 

 prized stone. 



Although we have no knowledge of any migrants arriving 

 here since the famous fleet of from eighteen to twenty genera- 

 tions ago, yet Cook's interpreter understood certain Maoris to say 

 that, subsequent to the arrival of their ancestors in New Zea- 

 land, some canoes had arrived from an island called Ulimaroa. 



The Ngatiporou Tribe have a tradition that some of their 

 ancestors left New Zealand to search for the Hawaikian father- 

 land, but were never again heard of. Shortland, in his essay 

 published in the first volume of the " Transactions of the New 

 Zealand Institute," mentions a canoe which left Tauranga in 

 the last century, and sailed boldly forth into the Pacific Ocean 

 in search of Hawaiki. 



9— Trans. 



