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followers, communication with Hataitai was reopened under the following 
circumstances. Tuahuriri, deserted in infancy by Tu maro, had now attained 
to man's estate, and had settled with his wives on the south-east coast of the 
North Island. But he could not rest till he had solved a question which 
had troubled him all his life. Once when a child he had been startled by 
hearing the mother of one of his playmates, whom he had struck, exclaim, 
* What a bullying fellow this bastard is." Running up to his own mother 
he immediately asked if it was true that he was a bastard. “No,” she said. 
* Then where," he asked, “is my father ?" “Look where the sun sets, that 
is where your father dwells.” He kept these words treasured up in his 
memory, and now, having attained to man's estate, he determined to go in 
search of his father. Leaving his wives behind him he embarked with 
seventy men in a war canoe, and crossed the straits to Waimea; arrived 
there he landed and drew up the canoe in front of the pa. The inhabitants 
came forth to welcome him in and invited him to occupy the residence of 
their chief. On entering the house Tuahuriri laid himself down on his back 
near the door, whilst his companions seated themselves round the sides of 
the house. As no one in the place recognised any of them, the usual 
preparations were made for their destruction; as it was always held by 
Maoris that those who were not known friends must be regarded as 
enemies, and treated accordingly. Kahukura te paku stationed armed men 
all round the house, and while he was preparing to attack the new comers, 
the women and slaves were busy heating the stones and preparing the ovens 
to cook their bodies in. While these preparations were being made, and 
everyone was longing for the time when the bodies would be cooked and 
ready for them to feast upon, the children of the village came flocking round 
the entrance curious to see the strangers. One more venturesome than the 
rest climbed up to the window, and communicated to those behind him 
what he saw ; while so occupied Tuahuriri looking up at the roof said ** Ah, 
just like the red battens of my grandfather Kahukura te paku’s house which 
~ he left over the other side at Kauwhakaarawaru." The boy on hearing this 
ran and told the men who were lying in wait. They made him repeat the 
words several times, and then Kahukura te paku said, “I never left any 
house or painted battens on-the other side, only the boy on whose account 
we came across. Go, ask him his name." Then one arose and approached 
and called out, “Inside there. Eh! Sit up. Tell me who you are!” Then 
Tuahuriri sat up and said, “Iam Te hiku tawatawa o te raki" (the name 
given to him by his father when he was born). The man went back and 
told Kahukura te paku, who was overwhelmed with shame when he dis- 
covered that he had been craving after the flesh of his own grandson. 
Approaching the house he told him to come forth, not by the door, but the 
