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rangatiras were taken ; every raiding party was beaten, hence the 

 byword, " Tutira upoko-pipi" " Tutira, the place where heads 

 become soft." 



Kupa, the child thus carried off and rescued, became a man and 

 begat Te Umu-kapiti, who begat Parakau, who begat Aperahama, who 

 begat Anaru, to whom, and to whose son Tera, I owe much of the in- 

 formation contained in this chapter. 



