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the Awatopa clan who settled there, and to Ngapuhi hrough Muru nui, 
who was connected with Maru kore, one of their ancestors. 
During the Ngatimamoe occupation, an event occurred which seems to 
throw some light upon the origin of the Chatham Islanders :— 
Tradition says that a canoe, manned entirely by chiefs whose names are 
forgotten, but who are known now as “ Nga toko ono," or The Six, went 
out from Parakakariki to fish, and when a long way off from the shore a 
violent nor'west wind sprung up and drove them out to sea, and they were 
never heard of again. It is not at all improbable that this canoe reached 
the Chathams, and that the crew became the progenitors of one section of 
the present inhabitants. Te Koti, a Maori Wesleyan minister who was 
stationed for some years on the principal island, states that the Morioris 
have preserved the names of many of the headlands around Akaroa, and 
that they number Mamoa (probably a corruption of Mamoe) amongst their 
ancestors. It is an interesting fact that many of the words in use by the 
Morioris are nearer akin to the Rarotongan form than the Maori equivalent. 
It is quite clear that the Ngatimamoe, like the Ngai Tahu, came from 
the east coast of the North Island. How long it was before their 
possession of this island was disputed it is hard to guess correctly; but 
judging from their numbers, and the total subjugation of Waitaha to their 
rule when the Ngai Tahu appear on the scene, they could not have held it 
for less than 100 years. 
A small tribe called Ngaitara were the first to make alliances with 
Ngatimamoe, and were the cause of Ngai Tahu crossing the straits. 
Reliable Traditions. 
Near Tanv.—Causes that led to their Migration. 
About the year 1650 we find the Ngai Tahu located at Hataitai, between 
what is now called Wellington Harbour and the coast. In this pa 
dwelt a band of warriors renowned for courage and daring, whose war- 
like propensities had made them rather obnoxious to their kinsmen and 
neighbours, the Ngatikahununu. Among this band dwelt an old chief 
named Kahukura te paku, who was connected with the Ngaitara tribe, 
then settled at Waimea, in the South Island. His son, Tu maro, was 
married to Rakai te kura, daughter of Tama ihu poro, the seventh from 
Tahu, the founder of the tribe. Shortly after his marriage Tu maro was 
called away for a time from Hataitai; and during his absence his wife, 
who was pregnant, contracted an improper intimacy with Te ao hikuraki. 
Tu maro returned just before his wife gave birth to a child, and, being 
ignorant of her misconduct, proceeded, when the pains of labour began, to 
repeat the customary charms to aid delivery. Having exhausted his store 
of charms, and repeated all the genealogies of his ancestors in vain, he 
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