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was ataniwha, The names of the sisters were Kiniwai, Haungaroa, and Pupu- 
a-te-Hoata. The sisters landed at Whakaari (White Island, Bay of Plenty), 
and there lit a fire (geyser). They then came on to the mainland at Uma- 
pokapoka (a geyser), and then travelled on by the Kaingaroa Plains. This 
name (Kaingaroa—long at food) was given through Haungaroa being so 
long over her food at a place named Whakaaweawe, so-called through 
Haungaroa following some of her companions to chastize them for remark- 
ing on her being so long over her meal. They turned into cabbage trees, 
which are still to be seen by travellers, but they always recede as you 
appear to approach them. The sisters lit a fire (geyser) at Tarawera Lake, 
then ascended a hill and looked down on Rotorua Lake; one of them 
slipped down here, so they called the place Te Hemo, and lit a fire (geyser) 
there, and then proceeded on to Paeroa and Orakeikoraka, where they lit 
another geyser, and shortly after arrived at Taupo. But Ngatoro-i-rangi. 
had returned to Maketu, so the sisters determined to join him there. On 
passing along the Kaituna stream they observed a totara tree standing. 
When they arrived in sight of the pa and the people saw them coming they 
shouted the call of weleome and beckoned them to come to the pa, but they - T 
declined, at the same time calling out that the priests should be sent to 
them to perform the necessary incantations to free them of the curse of 
Manaia. The priests were accordingly sent, and performed their religious 
rites to free them of the curse.* The sisters then proceeded to the pa, carry- 
ing with them the gods—viz., Rongomai, Kahukura, and others which they 
had brought with them from the saered places where Ngatoro-i-rangi had 
left them. Enquiries were then made for news from Hawaiki. The sisters 
informed Ngatoro-i-rangi that they had all been cursed by Manaia. Nga- 
toro enquired the nature of the curse and the cause thereof. They replied 
Manaia had cursed Ngatoro-i-rangi saying, “ Are the logs in the forest as 
sacred as the bones of your brother that you are afraid to use them in 
cooking, or are the stones of the desert the kidneys of Ngatoro-i-rangi that 
you do not heat them? By-and-bye I will frizzle the flesh of your brother 
on red-hot stones taken from Waikorora." The cause of this curse was 
that Kuiwai, Ngatoro-i-rangi’s sister, and wife of Manaia, had not thoroughly 
cooked the food at a great sacred feast at Hawaiki. 
atoro-i-rangi’s sacred seat, and that they were afterwards 
cleansed by the priests from the curse of Manaia, 
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