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chiefs and all the tribes consenting. A woman was therefore presented to 
the chief of Ngatihotu named Paepaetehe. The woman’s name was Hineuru, 
sister of Taumaihi of Puteketeke and of Rorotaka. Some of the party then 
returned to Kawerau, the abode of Tuwharetoa in the Bay of Plenty, and 
some remained at Taupo. 
The district now remained for many years at peace, and the Tuwhare- 
toas considered the country theirs, when it occurred to Ngatihotu to seek 
revenge by murder for their former defeat and the lives of their relatives 
killed by Tuwharetoa. The Ngatihotu were then living at Motiti, in the 
mountainous country of Kaimanawa. 
Rorotaka, Puteketeke, Taumaihi, and others of the Tuwharetoa tribe 
went at that time to Motiti, and were beckoned by the people of the place 
(Ngatihotu) to enter the pa. They did so, and sat down in the house. 
The inhabitants of the place then put feathers of birds on the oven so that 
the guests might think from the smell reaching their noses that birds were 
being cooked for them at the fire. It was only a deceit, for the chiefs of the 
pa (Ngatihotu) had planned to kill Puteketeke, Rorotaka, and Taumaihi. 
Their sister, it will be remembered, had been. given as a wife to the chief of 
the pa—viz., Paepaetehe of Ngatihotu. She was sitting in the house talking 
with her brothers of the Tuwharetoa quite ignorant of the murderous inten- 
tions of her husband and his tribe. The visitors enquired of her what was 
going on outside, and she answered, ** They are preparing some food for 
. you." She then went out to see how things were getting on, when she met 
the Ngatihotu coming to kill the people. She then cried out, ** Sirs, an 
attack, an attack.” 
The fight then commenced, the enclosure round the house and the 
veranda were full of people. Rorotaka stood at the door and Puteketeke 
at the window with ten others. Rorotaka had a pukaea (bugle made of 
wood). He commenced to jump about in the house shouting and yelling. 
The people fell back into the enclosure of the village ; Rorotaka threw his 
pukaea at them exclaiming, ‘‘I will have the heart of the first killed." The 
people all gathered outside of the house and the s hing then continued 
between the ten and the three hundred. 
Taumaia called out, * Oh ! Puteketeke; oh! we cannot hold out any 
longer, the people are colleeting spears." 
Puteketeke now observed that Rorotaka was out of wind, so he rushed 
to the front, and there got stabbed in the thigh ; but he did not fall, he 
continued rushing on while the enemy fell back before him, so he and his 
party escaped. No chief was killed. Puteketeke alone was wounded, but 
not killed. They then fled to Whaka-pou-Karakia, and concealed them- 
selves there. Those who were able went on to Taupo. 
