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Ngai Tahu ; and the Ngatimamoe, as a distinct and independent tribe, may 
be said to have perished at Teihoka. Those in alliance with Ngai Tahu 
were still numerous, but their position was felt to be so insecure that, on 
the return of Turakautahi’s sons from their successful raid, Te Rangi ihia, 
a noted Ngatimamoe chief residing at Matau, determined to proceed to 
Kaiapoi and make lasting terms of peace with the conquerors. He was 
kindly received ; and to cement the treaty then made, Hine hakiri, one of 
the ruling family of Ngai Tahu, was given to him in marriage; and his own 
sister, Kohiwai, was married to Hone kai, son of Te Hau. Rangi ihia 
resided with his wife's relations till after the birth of his son Pari, when 
they advised him to return, as it was their wish to embody Rangi ihia's 
hapu with their own and to make the boy chief of both. Te Hau and 
Turakautahi's sons escorted Rangi ihia to the south. On reaching home 
he was shocked to see one of his sisters cooking food like a common slave. 
When leaving her behind, he had taken care to provide such attendance as 
befitted her rank, and he could not account for her being reduced to such 
straits as to be obliged to cook her own food. Suppressing his indignation till . 
night-fall, he took the opportunity when all was quiet of asking her why she 
had so demeaned herself. She then told him that, after he left, her maids 
married and deserted her. Seizing his weapons, Rangi ihia having ascer- 
tained where they were to be found went to the house occupied by the 
runaways and killed both the women. As he turned his back to go out again, 
one of the husbands drove a spear into his shoulder, the point breaking off 
against the bone. On reaching his own whare, Te Hau pulled this out with 
his teeth, and applied a toetoe plaster to the wound. While Rangi ihia was 
recovering, he unfortunately sneered at the weakness of the arm which had 
struck him: ‘Had it been my own the thrust would have been fatal." 
This coming to the ears of the injured men, they scraped the end of the 
spear and got off the dry blood adhering to it, and, by performing incanta- 
tions over it, produced symptoms of madness in Rangi ihia, who shortly 
afterwards died. Before his death, he turned to his friend Te Hau and 
said, ** When I am gone, do not let my brothers live; they are bitter men, 
and will slay my children." It was at Otepoti where he was being treated 
for his wound and died. His brothers and their people were camped at a 
short distance off on the other end of the bay. On calling out one day to 
ask how the patient was, their suspicions were roused by the way in which 
the answer was given. The person replying called out, ** He is——,” and 
then paused suddenly as if being remonstrated with, finishing the sentence 
by saying—“ gone with his wife and children." Ngatimamoe entered the 
Ngai Tahu camp shortly after, when Te Hau, mindful of the dying chief's 
charge, fell upon his brothers, Taihua and Te Rangiamohia, and killed them, 
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