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of Aotearoa, discovered by Kupe ten generations before. Said Toi to Toa- 
rangitihi, a chief of Rarotonga: “I go to seek my lost offspring at the 
land discovered by Kupe in far ocean spaces. Should others seek me, tell 
them whither I have gone, for truly I will reach that land or be engulfed 
in the depths of Hinemoana.” The courageous old sea-rover swung the 
prow of his long-boat to the south-west, and sailed down five hundred 
leagues of open sea to the land of Aotearoa. 
He did not make a true landfall ; he missed New Zealand, but sighted 
the Chatham Isles. Eventually, however, he came to land at Tamaki, 
where the City of Auckland now stands. After sojourning for some time 
among the aborigines at that place, Toi and his companions, sixty in all, 
sailed to Aotea (Great Barrier Island); thence to Tuhua Island, in the Bay 
of Plenty; eventually settling at Whakatane. There, at Ka-pu-te-rangi, 
on the cliff-head overlooking the river-entrance, the disappointed, sea- 
worn old Polynesian voyager came to rest. Probably he did not feel equal 
to making another voyage across rough seas in the primitive craft of those 
far-back times. So Toi of Tahiti settled in the Land of Awa. 
making of a deep-ocean voyage. He acq one Turangi a vessel 
named “ Те Hawai,” renamed it “ Kurahaupo,” and fitted it for a long 
voyage. The vessel had three hawmi—that is, the hull was com о 
four pieces ; it had twenty-six thwarts, two bailing-wells, and two anchors. 
Whatonga selected a crew of hardy seafarers inured to deep-ocean work, 
resolute wayfarers on the sea-roads of the wide Pacific. The top-strakes 
were lashed on, the splash-boards fixed, vegetable gum, shark-oil, and 
ochre being used to dress all the timbers. Fifty-and-two paddlers were 
selected, also four ship-tenders, two anchor-tenders, four sail-tenders to 
attend to the sails, two steersmen, and two fire-tenders. Thus sixty-and- 
six were the persons forming the crew of “ Kurahaupo," and it is known 
that a few women were also on board. The canoe was hauled to a tapu 
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е He а ените made their landfall near the North Саре, ran 
down the west coast to Tonga-porutu, and there heard that Toi had settled 
at Whakatane. Then they sailed northward, rounded the North Cape, 
and ran down to Whakatane, where the long double quest was at last 
ended in the meeting of the two dauntless traversers of the cvm 
atonga did not settle in the Bay of Plenty, for it was 3 y pei 
of the aboriginal Maruiwi. He led a pa round the T xem Ser 
eventually settled at Nukutaurua, in the Mahia district. Here he liv : 
- until he had become an old man, and his followers, by intermarriage wit 
aboriginal women, had increased considerably in numbers. It was then 
that Whatonga sent his two sons, Tara and Tautoki, southward on an 
