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inhabitants, and were again driven from the Mahia, although Kahungunu 
had become the chief there by his marriage with Rongomaiwahine; and 
that these wanderers are again repulsed at Wairoa and Arapawanui to find 
shelter at last with the people of Wakaari and Tongoio, and eventually 
settled on the plains of Heretaonga, which were at the time thickly inhabited 
by a people able to construct and garrison a pa like Otatara (Redcliffe, near 
Taradale), with its great entrenchments extending over an estimated area 
of at least eighty acres. 
The Migration of Tamatea and others from Hawaiki, and early Settlement 
of Hawkes Bay. 
This is the legend about the arrival of Tamatea, father of Kahungunu, 
from whom the Ngatikahungunu take their tribal name. The name of 
Tamatea's canoe was Takitimu. His companions were his father Rongokako, 
Hikitapuae, Hikitaketoke, Rongo-i-a-moa, Taihopi, Taihopa, Kahutuanui, 
Motoro, Angi, Kupe, Ngake, Paikea, Menuku, the children of Tato and 
others. The reasons for their leaving Hawaiki were two: in the first place, 
a quarrel about a woman ; secondly, a fight amongst themselves concern- 
‘ing Wena. But they had previously ascertained the direction to steer. - 
They went to the forest to search for proper timber for canoes to pass 
over in. The name of the forest was Tawhitinui. After searching for 
some time they found suitable trees, six in number, they felled the 
trees and made the canoos, which was a work for the gods. Accord- 
ing to their ancestors, the gods always assisted in great works when 
the proper incantations and offerings were made to them. Ere long 
the canoes: were completed and ready for sea. ‘The names of the 
canoes were—the Takitimu, Tainui, Arawa, Matatua, Kurahaupo, and 
Tokomaru. All being ready, they were hauled down the stream named 
Hauhau, to the sea. The Takitimu was the first to arrive at the stream, 
its name was therefore changed to Horo-uta. When all was prepared, they 
started on their voyage. After being out at sea for some time, the food 
which they brought from Hawaiki was all consumed, and they were faint 
with fasting. Then arose Tamatea, and chanted a mataara, glaring fiercely 
with his eyes. The people thought he intended to kill one of the party for 
food. A man then stood up and called out, “I have got a calabash (ipu), 
full of preserved birds,” which were eaten; but ere long hunger again 
oppressed them. Then, again, Tamatea stood up and repeated as before ; 
and the same fear came over the people that some one would be set apart 
for food. Bo another called out, * I have some preserved fish,” so they ate 
that,—and again they hungered. The same man stood up a third time and 
threatened, and once more food was found: and so it went on until they 
arrived at Aotearoa (the Maori name for the North Island of New 
