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people on the subject of colonization and the acquirement of territory. 
They very quickly left a settlement a little to the westward of their first 
landing place, where their descendants, a tribe called Ngatitai, still dwell. 
Thence they sailed to Tauranga, entered that harbour, and, navigating its 
waters, left another settlement at Katikati; a rock named Te punga o 
Tainui, the anchor of Tainui, is pointed out, and an extensive shoal, Te 
ranga a Taikehu, was named after Taikehu, one of the chiefs on board the 
canoe. It is affirmed that Taikehu, having dropped a greenstone hatchet 
overboard, according to custom had recourse to a charm, which was so 
potent that the land rose and the water dried up, so that he picked up the 
lost hatchet without difficulty ; that the shoal now exists is the evidence of 
the fact, and who may doubt it? Leaving Katikati, the next place Tainui 
touched at was Mercury Bay; thence it sailed on towards Waitemata, and 
some of them settled near there, at Tamaki; their descendants are also 
called Ngatitai, who have the title Manawapowatu (stony heart), to dis- 
tinguish them from their kindred Ngatitai, who were left on the shore of the 
Bay of Plenty, and who were called in distinction Manawaiti (little heart). 
Arriving at the head of the arm of the sea called Tamaki—the spot is still 
called Te apunga o Tainui, the landing place of Tainui—the canoe was dragged 
across to the waters of Manukau, and passing out through the entrance 
of that harbour, thence sailed along the coast to the southward, till it 
arrived off the River Waikato. On seeing that river flowing into the sea, the 
priest exclaimed “ Waikato, Waikato kau.” This jest of his gave the name 
to that river. As they coasted along the beach now called Te akau, he 
exclaimed, * Ko te akau kau” — it’s nothing but beach; and when they 
arrived off Kawhia, he called it “ Kawhia kau.” At that place they landed, 
and the canoe was finally dragged ashore. Kawhia has ever since remained 
in possession of the descendants of its crew, who form a tribe called after it 
ainui. This as well as all the tribes, more than twenty-five in number, 
which together are comprehended under the general name of Waikato, have 
sprung from a Tainui source. 
Of the voyage of the canoe Te Arawa, and of the history of its crew and 
their descendants, there exists the most circumstantial narrative I have 
met with; it preserves so many circumstances looking like truth. It is, 
however, too lengthy to give here. I may mention that from it we ascertain 
the season of the year when these voyagers reached New Zealand; the rata 
tree was then in flower, for one of them, named Taininihi, threw away his - 
kura, which was a head-dress made of red feathers, described by Cook as worn 
by the South Sea Islanders, thinking to get a new and better one from the 
rata flowers. This kura drifted ashore, and was afterwards picked up by a 
person named Mahina, who refused to restore it when asked. Hence the 
