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TUTIRA 



appeared into the Urewera country. The other, proceeding roughly 

 parallel with the Korongomairoa stream, continued through the kainga 

 Waipopopo, and skirting a couple of upland tarns, also passed out 

 of our story coastward towards Mohaka. 



With it, too, is completed the history of the trails of old heathen 

 Tutira ; if they have been at times wearisome to walk, they have at 

 any rate acted as threads upon which to string the facts ; they have 

 prevented digression in too outrageous a degree. It must have been 

 consolatory, moreover, to the reader, that, according to its annalists, 

 Anaru, Te Hata-Kani, and Pera, the Ngai-Tatara were always victo- 

 rious, so much so indeed that the station became famous in the land as 

 Tutira upoko-pipi " Tutira where heads become soft." 



Greenstone Tiki. 

 (Presented by native friends to the author.) 



