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caused the pauas to stick to his own body, also his head, and then returned 
to shore, Those sticking on his head were carried to the sacred place as 
offerings to the gods: the others were eaten by the people. Then all the 
men of the village were collected to haul the kits ashore, but they could 
not ; so all the people from the neighbouring pas were called, and then they 
succeeded in hauling the paua ashore, and all the multitude feasted on 
them. - 
Then the people, seeing the great works of this man and how he could 
collect food, wondered, and contrasted their own chief Tamatakutai, who 
could only carve wood, etc., and did not collect food, so they took away 
pongeniawatine from him, and gave her to Kahungunu, and they 
begat— 
Kahukuranui 
Tupurupuru 
Rangituehu 
Hineao 
Huhuti, whose husband was the Whatu-i-apiti. 
From them are dero the — families of the whole tribe of Nga- 
tikahungunu. 
The Migration from Poverty Bay eei: to Hawkes Bay (Heretaonga). 
Turanga was formerly the home of the present Maori owners of the land 
about Napier, Hawke's Bay, but through the murder of two children, the 
twins of Kahutapere and Rongomaitara, sister of Rakai-te-hikuroa, they 
were driven thence. The names of the children were Tarakuita and Tara- 
kitai. How it happened was in this way :—Rakai-te-hikuroa (grandson of 
Kahungunu, and fourth from Tamatea, who with Rongokaka came from 
Hawaiki) felt annoyed that the preserved food, such as birds cured in eala- 
bashes in their own fat, should be given to the twins in place of being kept 
forhisson Tupurupuru. He therefore determined on destroying his sister's 
children. The plan he decided on was this:—The children were in the 
habit of playing whip-top during the day. In Rakai-te-hikuroa's pe, named 
Maunga-puremu, near the present village of Ormond, there was a kumera 
pit by the side of the path. When the children commenced to play, Rakai- 
te-hikuroa walked up and knocked the tops into the hole, and then told the 
twins to get them out again. Immediately they were in the hole he filled it 
up. As evening advanced the parents became anxious and searched in every 
direction, but could not discover their children. They then made kites of 
raupo leaf (Typha angustifolia) shaped like hawks, covering the outside with 
pd aas mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) ; these kites were sent up 
te (Broussonetia papyrifera) is said to have been brought by the early Maori 
settlers, iid dinde to make elothing of the bark ; it is now extinct. : 
