80 NATIVE TRIBES. [PART I. 



IX. The Nga-te-raukaua, in Otaki, about twenty 

 miles to the northward of Kapiti, at the rivers 

 Manawatu, Rangitiki, and Waitotara, all of which 

 discharge themselves into Cook's Straits. They are 

 related to the tribe at Wanganui, above mentioned, 

 and their number is about 600. They are on bad 

 terms with the Nga-te-awa, who are settled at 

 Waikanahi, opposite Entry Island, and in 1839 I 

 witnessed a battle in which about 150 men were 

 killed on each side. The Nga-te-raukaua are an 

 interior tribe, and lived formerly on the upper part 

 of the river Waikato. The Waikato tribes drove 

 them away, and they settled in Cook's Straits. At 

 the same time the Nga-te-awa were driven to the 

 southward, and each disputed the advance of the 

 other. In the interior I saw some of the old pas 

 of the Nga-te-raukaua, and the figure of a human 

 head, roughly cut out of a tufacious stone, was 

 pointed out to me as a memorial to their principal 

 chief, who was killed there. At present the most 

 intimate connexion exists between them and the 

 Nga-te-toa, of whom Rauparaha is the head, and 

 who seems to intrigue with them against the rest of 

 the Nga-te-awa. 



X. Nga-te-kahuhunu. This is a very numerous 

 tribe, inhabiting the east coast from above Waiapu, 

 or East Cape, to Hawke's Bay, and is subdivided 

 into smaller tribes : I do not think its number 

 is less than 36,000, as the east coast swarms with 

 natives. They formerly lived as far down as Port 



