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Te Rangi ihia was buried in accordance with his own desire on the peak 
Te raka a runga te raki, *that his spirit might see from thence his old 
haunts to the southward." His wife and children were sent back to their 
friends in the north, while Te Hau took up his quarters at Pukekura. 
Final Destruction of Ngatimamoe. 
Many years after Rangiihia's death, his bones were carried down by a 
landslip to the beach, where, being picked up by a Ngai Tahu, he made a 
fish-hook of one, and when using this made some insolent remark about the 
old man on the hil holding the hapuku well. A Ngatimamoe who was 
present reported the words to his companions, who remarked, * The two 
brothers died in open fight, but this man has been dishonoured after death, ` 
and the insult must be avenged.” An opportunity occurred shortly after for 
accomplishing their meditated act of retaliation. A party had been sent from 
Pukekura to Rauone to collect fern-root. ‘There Tane toro tika, son of 
Taoka and grandson of Manawa, a young chief of very high rank, was 
surprised and taken prisoner; on being carried to the presence of Te 
Maui, that chief gecine him said, ** This comb-fastening is equal to that 
comb-fastening," tnd thereupon killed him. Tai kawa, a Ngai Tahu 
warrior, immediately after the deed, came upon the band of Ngatimamoe 
and asked what had become of the prisoner. When told that they had 
killed him, he said, ** You have done foolishly, for not a soul of you will now 
be spared; you will be banished to the haunts of the Moho, and in the 
depths of the forest will be your only safety.” 
This threat was soon after carried into effect by Te Hau, who, after a 
series of engagements, drove the remnants of Ngatimamoe into the dense 
forests that cover the south-western coast, where further pursuit was 
useless, "Traces of these fugitives have been met with up to a very recent 
date. 
About fifty years ago Te Rimu rapa, while on his way to plunder a 
sealing-station, discovered a woman who called herself Tu ai te kura; 
finding that she was a Ngatimamoe, he cruelly killed and devoured her on 
the spot. About six years afterwards Te wae wae surprised two men while 
he was out eel-spearing near Aparima, but they escaped before he could 
catch them. In 1842 a sealing party, while pulling up one of the sounds, 
observed smoke issuing from the face of a cliff. Climbing to the spot they 
found a cave evidently just deserted. It was portioned across the middle— 
the inner part being used as a sleeping place, the outer for cooking. They 
found a handsome feather-mat, a patu paraoa, some fish-hooks, and some 
flax-baskets in process of making. An attempt was made to pursue the 
late inmates, but it had to be abandoned, for the undergrowth in the forest 
was so dense, and the paths so numerous, that the pursuers were afraid of 
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