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Rangitikei, and over a great part of the Southern and Stewart Islands, where . 
they still remain, and are there called Kaitahu. 
The tribes now residing south of Kawhia, known as Te Atiawa, are also 
said to have come from Hawaiki, in their canoe Tokomaru. This canoe made 
the eoast of New Zealand at night, and the land was first discovered in a 
singular manner, by the barking of a dog on board, which scented the 
carcass of a whale stranded on the beach. This, from the similarity of the 
circumstances mentioned, seems to have been the same place as that spoken 
of in the traditions of the Arawa as their landing place. The story goes, 
that a dispute having arisen between them and the crew of another canoe as 
to the proprietorship of the whale and of the land, Manaia, the chief of 
Tokomaru, resolved to go elsewhere. He and his party therefore sailed 
northward till they arrived at the extremity of the land, and then coasted 
along the western shore till they made Taranaki, where they finally settled. 
Subsequently to the discovery of New Zealand by Cook, the Atiawa were 
driven southward by Waikato, in the absence of a large portion of them who 
had joined Te Rauparaha in his wars against Kahuhunu, of Cook Strait, and 
the natives of the South Island. When Colonel Wakefield reached New 
Zealand he found this division settled at Waikanae and Port Nicholson, from 
which places they had expelled the Ngatikahuhunu. 
In their raid on the tribes dwelling on the southern shores of the North 
Island, they were not able to conquer the tribes dwelling about the River 
Wanganui, as these fled up the river and found refuge in the protection of 
its rapids and in its precipitous and wooded banks. 
As to the Wanganui tribe, the tradition is that their ancestors came to 
New Zealand in a eanoe named Aotea, and gave its name to the small 
harbour on the west coast, where they first landed. At that place the canoe 
was abandoned, and the crew, with their chief Turi, proceeding on foot 
along the shore to the southward, at last settled down on the River Patea. 
From Turi and his wife Rongorongo sprang the tribes Wanganui and 
Ngatimamoe. As they found no inhabitants as they came along the coast, 
this migration, if we credit the tale, must have been anterior to that of Te 
Atiawa. 
Tt is related by the other tribes that attempts have several times been 
made to return to Hawaiki; and within the last twenty-five years an 
instance occurred at Tauranga, where a family fitted out and provisioned a 
eanoe for a long voyage, and then put to sea with the design of returning to 
that island, having no better guide than the stars and the tradition of its 
position. The fate of these intrepid voyagers was of course never known in 
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