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and the 35th degree of south latitude. They have 

 broken up, taken as slaves, or intermixed with, the 

 tribe of the Haupouri, a once numerous and flourish- 

 ing people, who had their principal pas on the 

 northern coast, and from the North Cape to Pa- 

 renga-renga, and in Kaitaia. In all these places 

 trenches and walls remain on the tops of high hills, 

 which are now deserted. When the Haupouri were 

 conquered, a few, about thirty in number, went to 

 Manawatawi, or the Three Kings' Islands, where 

 they now live ; and I found a family of them, con- 

 sisting of six persons, at Cape Maria van Diemen. 

 At the end of 1840 about sixty of this tribe re- 

 turned to Pa-renga-renga, their old territory, with 

 the intention of again occupying the land of their 

 forefathers. Pane-kareao, the chief of the Rarewa 

 in Kaitaia, did not object to this ; but commissioned 

 me to tell them that they must not sell any land, 

 as it belonged to him. About forty of the Hau- 

 pouri live at Houhoura, or Mount Carmel ; the rest 

 at Kaitaia, along the western coast from Hokianga 

 to the northward, on the A wa-roa, a river which dis- 

 charges itself into Rangaunu, and also in Lauriston 

 Bay at Oruru, intermixed with the Rarewa. The 

 principal village of the latter is Kaitaia, where 

 there is a mission-station, which was established 

 eight years ago. The greater number of these na- 

 tives are Christians, with the exception of some 

 smaller tribes. Although the causes of disease 

 prevailing on the coast do not exist here, as there 



