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thoughtlessly touched with the tip of his tongue; this act, as he was tapu, was 
an awful act of impiety, for which he was instantly punished by being trans- 
formed into a mountain, ever since known by his name, Twmu-aki, Another 
consequence of his awful crime was that T'amatea never found his wives, whose 
enchanted bodies furnish the Maori with the highly valued greenstone, the 
best kind of which is often spoilt by a flaw known as tutae koka, or the dung 
of the bird the slave was cooking when he licked his burnt finger. 
Tue Lecenp or Hav-ia. 
Hau-mia was the son of Kiapara-te-hau (the wind is sporting). He 
belonged to the Kahui Tipua. At a place called the Kohanga o Hau-mia 
(nest of Haumia), on the face of a cliff known as Pgri-nui-awhiti (great 
cliff of Whiti), you may trace the gable of Hau-mia’s house, the upright 
posts, and the cross battens. It was here that Hau-mia's people tried 
to stop the canoe of the celebrated navigator Kupe, by placing a reef 
of rocks in his way, but they did not succeed, as he went far outside them 
and escaped. 
For the Legend of Kopu wai and Arai Te Uru, see Trans. N. Z. Inst., 
Vol. VIII., 1877. 
I now turn to the most interesting part of Mr. Cameron’s paper, that 
relating to the derivation of the names Kahui Tipua, and Ngapuhi. After 
carefully examining the evidence to hand, I am reluctantly forced to the 
conclusion that it does not support his hypothesis. The relation existing 
between the Maori words and similar Indian or Malay words is undeniable, 
but it is explained by the fact that the races using them have a common 
origin. When these words are examined, it will be found that their mean- 
ing must be very much strained to make them fit in with the theory. 
Kahui Tipua means in Maori a band of terrestrial monsters—an ogre or 
demon-band. Hui means to congregate; prefixed by the particle ka, it 
means a herd or flock. Tipua is a poetical form of Tupua, which comes 
from the verb tupu, to grow; the idea being that the creature so called 
sprung out of the earth—that it was, in fact, an dvroy@wv. In Archdeacon 
Williams’s dictionary, one of the meanings given for tupua is steal. This 
is an associated meaning, and does not belong to the word in its primary 
sense. Terrestrial monsters being regarded as hostile to man, the word 
came to be used in the same way that many words are employed by us; as 
for instance, jockeyed, mesmerized, or macadamized. Tipua is sometimes 
applied in Maori as we apply monstrous in vico eun 
Nga Puhi is the other name, which, singularly enough, is almost 
identical in appearance with the Indian dd meaning serpent-race. But 
here again, I am inclined to think that the likeness is more apparent than 
real Nga Puhi is a contraction for Nga-aitanga a te Puhirere, Nga is the 
