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they can neither smoke nor eat anything but the 

 food indigenous to the country, nor can they have 

 connexion with women. If these rules are trans- 

 gressed, they are punished by the gods, who frus- 

 trate their object. Thus it happened in this case. 

 In the middle of the canoe were the women, and a 

 man whose name was Tamate-kapua : this latter 

 was guilty of adultery with the wife of a Nga-pui. 

 The canoe stopped, and only pursued its course 

 after they had reconciled the divine anger by an 

 imprecation and by the punishment of the offender. 

 This imprecation is still preserved. The words " No 

 te uru o te Arawa koe," meaning you belong to the 

 Arawa that is, you are a cheat and a liar are pro- 

 verbial. They arrived at New Zealand : the Nga- 

 pui landed in the Bay of Islands ; the Rarewa in 

 Oruru, in Lauriston Bay ; the Nga-te-wakaua and 

 the Nga-te-roinangi at Muketu, in the Bay of 

 Plenty, whence the former settled at Rotu-rua, and 

 the latter went into the interior to the Taupo lake : 

 these were the forefathers of their respective tribes. 

 May not the incident above mentioned have sown 

 the seed of the hostilities in which the inhabitants 

 of the north and those of the south have been 

 engaged from time immemorial ? 



The second canoe, Kotahi-nui, landed on the 

 western coast in Kawia, and its crew were the an- 

 cestors of the numerous tribes of the Waikato. A 

 piece of the canoe is asserted to be still preserved ; 

 that is to say, it became stone, and is to be seen near 



