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with Europeans has produced this result. The tribes 

 of the Rangitane and Nga-hei-tao, in Queen Char- 

 lotte's Sound, have gone to the eastern coast of the 

 middle island : some are held in slavery by the Nga- 

 te-awa. The Nga-te-Kahohunu, in Tory Channel, 

 and at Port Nicholson, have likewise given way to 

 the Nga-te-awa, and live now on the eastern coast 

 of the northern island, around Hawke's Bay. Two 

 tribes of the Nga-te-awa, the Nga-te-motunga and 

 Nga-te-toma, emigrated in a European vessel to 

 the Chatham Islands. The Nga-te-raukaua, a 

 central tribe of the northern island, were driven 

 from their native district, near the sources of the 

 Waikato River, and settled in Otaki, near the River 

 Manawatu, enclosed on both sides by hostile tribes. 

 All yielded to their common enemy, the Waikato. 

 The latter have expelled almost all the inhabitants 

 from the finest district in Cook's Straits, Taranaki, 

 without occupying it themselves. It was not the 

 desire of new dwelling-places which tempted them 

 to this warfare, as they themselves possess one of 

 the most productive parts of the island ; they re- 

 ceived the impulse from the chiefs of the Bay of 

 Islands, who, being provided with fire-arms, had 

 beaten them in several engagements. 



It must not, however, be imagined that there is 

 no relationship, no intercourse between these dif- 

 ferent tribes : they are all more or less mixed, 

 although feuds still exist between the Nga-te-rau- 

 kaua and the Nga-te-awa at Waikanahi, and between 



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