98 ISLAND OF ARAPAOA. [PART I. 



the Nga-te-Kahohunu, the same who originally 

 inhabited Port Nicholson, and the tribes of the 

 Nga-te-awa. Rauparaha, at the head of the latter 

 people, earned here inglorious laurels by shutting 

 up his opponents on a narrow tongue of land, and 

 then exterminating them. 



The next destination of the Tory was Kapiti, or 

 Entry Island, in Cook's Straits, and, leaving 

 Te-awa-iti for that place on the 15th of October, 

 we were towed by two boats round the northern 

 headland of the channel. The coast of the island of 

 Arapaoa to Cape Komaru, the eastern headland of 

 Queen Charlotte's Sound, runs nearly in a straight 

 line, and is extremely steep, on which account many 

 slips have taken place. It is scarcely possible to find 

 a more iron-bound shore. At four o'clock in the 

 afternoon Cape Komaru bore N. W. by N. ^ N. ; 

 the island of Kapiti, N.N.E. J E. ; the island of 

 Mana, N.E. by E. ; Cape Terawiti (the Rising 

 Sun), S.E. by S. i S. ; Point Jackson, W.N.W. 



During the night the breeze fell, and we were 

 beating about between Mana and the Two Brothers. 

 At three o'clock on the following day we anchored 

 between Kapiti and the mainland, to the north- 

 ward of a small rocky island called Tokomapura, or 

 Evans's Island, which is inhabited by an English 

 whaling-party. A little to the eastward of the 

 southern end of Kapiti are two other small islands : 

 the outermost is called Tauramoria, or Rauparaha's 

 Island, from its being the usual place of abode of 



