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of Tiere (at Roro-o-kuri Island, Napier Harbour), and the delicious fern-root 
at Pukehou (at Petane), and the fat rats at Ramariki (near Arapauanni), and 
the glutinous pauas at Tahito (near Arapauanui)'" This saying was not 
Tamatea's, but his son's (Kahungunu). [I would draw attention here to 
the fact that all the places mentioned by Kahungunu in this account appear 
to have been well known by name, and celebrated for their various products. 
The same remark applies to. places mentioned in other traditions—a certain 
evidence that people had been there of old, and that the country was well 
known at the time.] 
The father then said, * Are you longing for our home, if so, return ?" 
The son replied, ** No, it was only a sigh of remembrance.” Here also the 
lizard scratched in its calabash, so it was taken out and a heitiki (a green- 
stone ornament) was fastened to its neck. It was then placed in a rock 
eave, and a tree was planted and named Pohukura. The lizard is still 
there, and its mana has not left it. When it roars it is an indication 
of bad weather. Then they travelled on to the forest to Haupuru, and 
Turangakira, a rock cave. People journeying generally stop there for 
shelter. One of the party of Ngaitamahine died there from the frost and 
snow ; thence on to Reporoa and then ascended the mountains at a place 
called Ranga-a-Tamatea. Here they left a lizard and called the place 
Aorangi. They afterwards arrived at a settlement near the Wanganui. 
The chief's name was Tarinuku, who offered the travellers food, including 
a calabash of preserved birds. Tamatea ate up ail the birds, at which 
Kahungunn was angry, and quarrelled with his father, so they separated, 
each going by a different road. Kahungunu travelled on by way of Nga- 
pumakaka, Owhaoko Taruarau, Ngaruroro, Ngahuinga, at the head-waters 
of the Mohaka River, and through to Kaingaroa (Taupo Plains), then re- 
turned to Tauranga, and there dwelt. 
The father, Tamatea, after his son left him at the pa of Tarinuku, 
journeyed on to Wharekanae, Paraheke, the Hoko, and erossed the Whan- 
ganui at Tawhitimu, thence along in the river to Hikurangi and cast 
anchor at the Punga, then on by Manganui-o-te-ao, Whakapapa, thence 
across Okahukura Plains to Rotoaira at foot of Tongariro Mountain, then . 
on to Taupo Lake at the Rapa, thence on to Waihi and Pungarehu. There 
he obtained a canoe and crossed Lake Taupo with his companions to its 
outlet, where he landed, and through the earth sounding hollow under his 
feet he called the place Tapuaeharuru (sounding footsteps). Tamatea 
boasted to the people residing there that he could descend the Waikato 
River to Okoro in his canoe. The name of his canoe was Uapiko. The 
people of the place warned him of the dangerous waterfalls, but what was 
that to this brave chieftain ; away he started in his canoe. He passed on 
