Lockk.— Historical. Traditions of Taupo and East Coast Tribes. — 455 
When Tarangakahutai, the chief of the pa, saw him and his party 
coming, he called out ** Where is Taraia?” Taraia replied, *' Here I am." 
Tarangakahutai then shouted, ** Stand forth that I may know you,” which 
Taraia did. His dress was a mat made of feathers. "T'arangakahutai then 
said, * I shall know you directly, your heart shall be my food." 
Taraia then took a stone, and repeating the tipihoumea (incantation), 
threw it at Tarangakahutai, and it knocked his head-dress of feathers off. 
They fell at Taraia’s feet, who called out, ** I know that it is I that shall eat 
your heart presently.” 
The fighting then commenced, and Rakai-te-hikuroa was driven back. 
A woman named Hinepare, thinking her poople were defeated, took the 
calabash in which the gods were kept and ascended a rock and broke the 
calabash, crying out,—‘ Cursed be the mothers of these men, presently our 
nakedness will be exposed to the enemy.” Her brothers hearing the curse, the 
crash of the calabash on the rock, and the lamentations of the women, ima- 
gined that the head of a man had been broken. So Taraia rallied his 
people again and returned to the fight, and many were killed. 
Here was killed Tarangakahutai and Rakaiweriweri and others of the 
enemy, and Waikari and others of Rakai-te-hikuroa's party. A dispute 
arose over the body of Rakaiweriweri as to which family he belonged. 
Taraia hearing of the dispute, arose and took two pieces of toi-toi (Arundo 
conspicua), and cast lots with the mii, saying, if of Rakaiweriweri go, if you 
hold, you belong to this tribe. He cast it, and the mii held, he was there- 
fore declared to be of the family of Rakai-te-hikuroa. The incantation used 
was ;—'* Unihia i te pu, unihia i te weri, unihia i takitaki, wnihia i tamore i 
Hawaiki." This was the fourth death in payment of Tupurupuru. 
Rakai-te-hikuroa and party then moved on to Wakaari, Tauranga, and 
Heipipi, near Tangoio. The chiefs of those pas were Tautu and Tunui. 
While at Wakaari, there arrived from Heretaonga a man named Totara, 
who boasted of the abundance and goodness of the food of his place. "'awao 
said, on hearing of this, the Wanga-nui-o-roto (Napier Harbour, celebrated 
for its shellfish), shall be the mara (garden) of Tawao. Taraia said the 
Ngaruroro celebrated for kahawai shall be the ipu (calabash) of Taraia. 
The party then moved on to the mouth of the Ngaruroro and drove off 
Hatupuna and his people, and the Awa-nui-a-rangi and Whatu-ma-moa. 
Their principal pa was Otatara (Redcliffe, near Taradale). Kahukura-nui, 
father of Rakai-te-hikuroa, took to wife Tu-te-ihonga, chieftainness of 
Whatu-ma-moa, after he had returned from Motuo. Taraia and Porangahou 
had avenged the death of her former husband who had been killed by the 
people of that district. So we became amalgamated with that people in the 
second generation, after the arrival of Takitimu from Hawaiki. 
