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kinsman, butthe avenger of blood thrust his spear between them, and 
plunged it into the old man's body. 
Having ascertained that Te Rangitamau was away at Taumutu, and not 
knowing what course he might take, Moki gave orders that a watch should 
be kept during the night round the camp to guard against surprise, but his 
orders were disregarded. Te Rangitamau, whose suspicions were aroused by 
observing a more than ordinary quantity of smoke arising from the neighbour- 
hood of his father's pa, set off at once for the place, which he reached after 
dark. Passing through the sleeping warriors he approached his father's 
house, and looking in saw his wife Puna hikoia sitting by the fire. Stepping 
in he touched her gently on the shoulder, and putting his finger to his lips 
. as a signal to keep silence, beckoned her to come outside. There he 
questioned her about what had happened, and finding that she and his 
children had been kindly treated, he told his wife to wake Moki after he was 
gone, and to give him this message, ** Your life was in my hands, but I gave 
it back to you." Then taking off his dog-skin mat he placed itacross Moki's 
knees, and hurried away to his own stronghold on the hill close by. When 
Puna hikoia thought her husband safe from pursuit, she woke Moki and gave 
him the message. Moki felt the mat, and was convinced the woman spoke 
the truth. He was greatly mortified at being caught sleeping, as it was 
always injurious to a warrior's reputation to be discovered off his guard. 
Issuing from the whare he roused ‘his sleeping followers with the words 
which have since become proverbial, ** Ngai tuwhaitara mata hori." O, deaf- 
eared Tuwhaitara! The next day negociations were entered into with Te 
Rangitamau and peace restored between him and his kinsmen. 
West Coast Maoris. Discovery of Greenstone. 
It is not till the Ngai Tahu conquests reached Horowhenua that we hear 
anything of Ngati Wairangi, the tribe occupying the west coast, who, like 
Ngatimamoe and Ngai Tahu, were descendants of Tura, and crossed over 
to this island almost the same time with them. Hitherto they had been shut 
off from communication with the east coast by what were thought to be 
impassable natural barriers, till a mad woman named Raureka discovered a 
way through them. Wandering from her home this woman went up the 
bed of the Hokitika river, and then across what is known as Browny Pass, 
and thence down to the east coast. There in the neighbourhood of 
Horowhenua she came upon some men engaged in shaping a canoe, and 
taking notice of their tools remarked how very blunt they were. The men 
asked if she knew of any better. She replied by taking a little packet from 
her bosom, which she carefully unfolded, and displayed a sharp fragment of 
greenstone. This was the first the natives there had ever seen, and they 
were so delighted with the discovery that they sent a party immediately 
