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when they had anchored, and their attention was fixed upon their lines, Tu 
wiri roa bore down upon them and cut off their escape. Taken unawares 
without their weapons the erew were easily overpowered and put to death, 
an1 all their companions on shore soon after shared their fate. 
Waitai. 
It does not appear that Waitai, after separating himself from the main 
body of Ngai Tahu and fixing his residence in the south, was ever as 
successful in his encounters with Ngatimamoe as those whom he deserted ; 
whilst they made a clean sweep of their opponents driving them steadily 
down the coast before them, Waitai seems to have been content to plant 
stations here and there amongst Ngatimamoe without attempting their 
subjugation. We find him in alliance with Te Rangi tau neke, and joining 
with him in expeditions against Te Kapuwai or Waitaha who were still 
numerous inland. Thirty years after the conquest of the northern part of 
theisland, Ngatimamoe were still so strong in the south that they threatened 
the existence of the Ngai Tahu settlements there. 
Amongst the most noted chiefs who followed in Waitaha's wake was Te 
Wera, who for a time occupied a strong position at the mouth of the 
Waikouaiti river. He is more distinguished for his achievements against 
his own tribe in the south than against the common enemy. He finally 
settled at Rakiura, where he lived principally on seal's flesh and grew very 
fat. At the “Neck” a place called “the Fright of Te Wera” is pointed out 
where his first encounter with a seal took place; when he confessed that he, 
who never knew what fear was in any battle with men, felt terrified then. 
On his death-bed he advised his family to return to the main land, * that 
they might lie on a fragrant bed, and not on a stinking onelike his." An 
oven in his estimation being preferable to a grave.” 
Wharau nga pu raho nui. 
We now enter on the second period of the Ngai Tahu occupation, the 
first having closed with the fall of Pakihi and the dispersion of its 
inhabitants. The invaders now held entire possession of the country 
from Wairau southwards as far as Waihora, and occupied fortified pas 
here and there throughout the Ngatimamoe country as far south as 
Rakiura. 
The second period opens with the arrival, about the year 1727, of a 
pariy of young chiefs at Kaiapoi, known as the Wharaunga puraho nui, or 
colonising noblemen, consisting of the sons of the principal Ngai Tahu 
chiefs, some of whom had been brought up in the other island by their 
Kahununu relations. Amongst them were the sons of Turakautahi. This 
chief had selected Kaiapoi ds his residence, where he established a reputation 
_ for hospitality—a virtue which on his death-bed he enjoined his posterity to 
. continue for ever the practice of. 
