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began to suspect that something was wrong, and questioned his wife, who, 
after a little delay, confessed that one of his relations had been to her. 
* But who was it?" he demanded. “ Te ao hikuraki," she replied. The 
moment that name was uttered the child was born. Tu maro, without going 
near his wife, kept removing her from house to house till her purification 
and that of the child was accomplished. Then he came to her early one 
morning and told her to paint herself and the infant with red ochre; 
to put on her best mats, and to adorn her head with feathers. The woman 
did as she was bid, wondering all the time what her husband meant to do. 
When she had finished adorning herself, Tu maro led her into the court-yard 
of Te ao hikuraki, whom he found sitting under the veranda.  ** Here," 
said he, “is your wife and child!” and then, without another word, he 
turned away and went back to his own house. He then summoned all his 
immediate friends and relations, and informed them that it was his intention 
to leave the place immediately, as he could not live on friendly terms with 
those who had dishonoured him. His father approved of the proposed step, 
and acting on his advice their hapu, carrying with them their families and 
all their moveable goods, crossed the straits and entered Blind Bay, along 
the coast of which they sailed till they reached the mouth of the Waimea, 
where they landed and built a pa. Here, for upwards of twenty years, the 
Ngaitara, Ngatiwhata, and Ngatirua, sub-sections of the Ngai Tahu tribe, 
separated from their main body at Hataitai, grew into such importance 
through their allianee with Ngatimamoe, that they came at last to be 
regarded more in the light of independent tribes than parts of one and the 
same; and this often complicates the narrative. 
But what serves to complieate still further the history of this period was 
the existence of small settlements in the sounds of natives from the west 
eoast of the North Island including detachments of Rangitane, Ngatihauwa, 
Ngatihape, Ngai te heiwi, Ngai tawake, Ngati whare puka, and Ngai tu rahui. 
The Rangitane appear to have been the most important. Te Hau was their 
chief, and his cultivations at Te Karaka, known as Kapara te hau and 
O kainga, are still pointed out. Kupe, the great navigator, is said to have 
poured salt-water upon these cultivations for the purpose of destroying them, 
and so formed pools which remain to this day(?). These natives never seem 
to have extended their settlements much beyond the sounds, and little of 
their history worth recording has been preserved by the remnant of their 
descendants who escaped destruction at the hands of Te Rauparaha. 
Beyond Waimea, the Ngatiwairangi and Ngatikopiha, who in common 
with Ngatimamoe and Ngai Tahu were descended from Tura, took up their 
abode and spread from there all down the west coast. 
About twenty-five years after the secession of Kahukura te paku and his 
