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it to New Zealand, having been driven away from his home — 

 Hawaiki — by a female named Hine-tu-a-hoanga. After much 

 travelling in search of a suitable location for Poutini or Pou- 

 namu (his ika, or valued possession) one was found for it on 

 the west coast of the Middle Island, where it remained, and 

 is still found. The legend is given in Sir George Grey's 

 "Polynesian Mythology," page 82. (The foot-notes on that 

 page require correction : Poutini is the greenstone, or j^ou- 

 namu; Waiapu is obsidian.) 



" Now pay attention to the cause of the contention which 

 arose between Poutini and Waiapu, wliich led them to emi- 

 grate to New Zealand. For a long time they both rested in 

 the same place, and Hine-tu-a-hoanga, to whom the stone 

 Waiapu [Mata] belonged, became excessively enraged with 

 Ngahue and with his stone Poutini. At last she drove Ngahue 

 out and forced him to leave the place, and Ngahue departed 

 and went to a strange land, taking his jade-stone [Poutini, or 

 Pounamu] . When Hine-tu-a-hoanga saw that he was departing 

 with his precious stone, she followed after him, and Ngahue 

 arrived at Tuhua with his stone. Hine-tu-a-hoanga also 

 arrived and landed there at the same time with him, and 

 began to drive him away again. Then Ngahue went to seek 

 a place where his jade-stone might remain in peace, and he 

 found, in the sea, this island Aotearoa (the Northern Island 

 of New Zealand), and he thought he would land there. 



" Then he thought again, lest he and his enemy should be 

 too close to one another, and should quarrel again, that it 

 would be better for him to go further off with his jade-stone — 

 a very long way off. So he carried it off with him, and they 

 coasted along, and at length arrived at Arahura (on the west 

 coast of the Middle Island), and he made that an everlasting 

 resting-place for his jade-stone ; then he broke off a portion of 

 his jade-stone and took it with him and returned, and as he 

 coasted along he at length reached Wairere (believed to be on 

 the east coast of the Northern Island), and he reached Wha- 

 ugaparaoa and Tauranga, and from thence he returned to 

 Hawaiki, and reported that he had discovered a new country 

 which produced the moa and jade-stone in abundance. 



" He now manufactured sharp axes from his jade-stone ; 

 two axes were made from it — Tutauru and Hau-hau-te-rangi. 

 He manufactured some portions of one piece of it into images 

 for neck-ornaments, and some portions into ear-ornaments. 

 The name of one of these ear-ornaments was Kaukaumatua, 

 which was recently in the possession of Te Heuheu, and was 

 only lost in 1846, when he was killed with so many of his 

 tribe by a landslip. The axe Tutauru was only lately lost." 



The legend goes on to tell how the canoes were made 

 which brought the ancestors of the Maori to this land, giving 



