Locxe.— Historical Traditions of Taupo and East Coast Tribes, 435 
Taupo is derived. It is so called from the place where he slept, near a 
small waterfall over a projecting rock on the east side of the lake, viz., 
Taupo-nui-a-Tia ; perhaps he slept or rested there long at night. 
After the Arawa landed at Maketu, Tia and Maaka travelled by way of 
Kaharoa, Rotorua, Horohoro, Whakamaru, Titiraupenga, and round the 
west side of Taupo—the side next to Waikato. They did not return to 
Maketu, but died near Taupo at Titiraupenga. Their skulls have been seen 
by this generation carried to the kumara grounds that the crops might be 
plentiful, a custom which is of very ancient date with the Maoris. This is 
all about these ancestors. 
Tia’s descendants reside at Taupo. All the great men of the district 
trace their genealogies back to him nineteen generations :— 
Tia, Apa, Tamaapa, Tamaaia Tamaariki, Tamatatonga, Tatekura, Tua- 
hatana, Takapumanuka, Kahupaunamu, Taimeneharangi, Hiko, wife of 
Tamamutu (grandson of Tuwharetoa) Kapawa, Meremere, Rangi-tua-Mato- 
toru, Rangihirauea, Tumu, Maniapoto—in all nineteen generations. 
Te Heuheu, Hare Tauteka, and the other chiefs, go back to the same 
ancestor in their genealogies. 
Ko Ngatoro-i-rangi. 
This is an account of one of our renowned ancestors who visited the sea 
of Taupo and the open country, the forests, and the plains around. He 
came to this island from Hawaiki in the Arawa canoe, which landed first at 
` Whanga-paroa (near East Cape), then sailed on to Whakatane and Maketu. 
After Ngatoro-i-rangi had resided on the coast for a time he travelled inland 
by way of Kanakaua, Ruawahia, Te Puna-takahi. After crossing the Kai- 
ngaroa plains he reached Tauhara Mountain, which he ascended, and from 
thence looked down on the Sea of Taupo and at the snow-capped Tongariro 
in the distance. From the top of Tauhara he threw a large tree into the 
lake, a distance of four miles, which is still to be seen by this generation ; 
it is sticking up at the bottom of the lake near Wharewaka. The name of. 
Ngatoro’s spear is the “kuwha.” -Ngatoro-i-rangi then descended to the 
shores of the lake, near the Waipahihi, and performed incantations, and 
erected a tuaahu and named it Taharepa. When he discovered there were no 
fish in Taupo Lake he scattered the threads of his mat on the waters and per- 
formed religious rites, and the lake at once contained fish, viz., the inanga 
and the kokopu. He then travelled along the shores of the lake and ascended 
Tongariro, and was there benumbed with the cold on that snowy mountain. 
(His companion Ngauruhoe died here from the cold). So Ngatoro commenced 
calling out to his sisters to bring him fire from Hawaiki, for they had been 
left behind at Hawaiki. The sound that proceeded from his mouth was like 
thunder. His sisters heard him and came at once bringing fire.* Their canoe 
* See * Nga Mahinga a Nga Tupuna Maori” in Polynesian Mythology :—Sir G. Grey. 
