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the portent of that dark, straggling, slow-moving column, but of a verity 
it was the beginning of the end of the mana Maori in the land of Tara. 
For this was no ordinary tava, or war-party, armed with spears and stone 
eapons ; it carried the might and cunning of the pakeha, the man who 
deals death from afar, and no man seeth the falling of the blow—they 
were gun-fighters from the far north. 
A mixed force of Ngapuhi, Ngati-Whatua, Ngati-Toa, and others, 
under Tuwhare, Te Rauparaha, and other leaders, raided the west coast, 
marched down to Port Nicholson, camped at Pipitea, Te Aro, and the 
Hutt, and desolated the district. Many of Ngati-Ira were slain; captives 
were killed daily to provide food for the raiders. The invaders marched 
on to Wai-rarapa, from which place they returned home. One of the 
arty left us an account of the expedition, in which he says they marched 
southward a thousand strong, were absent a year, and that the party was 
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many of the inhabitants, and expelling Ngati-Ira from the Land of Tara. 
Thus the descendants of Whatonga and Ira were swept from the district, 
and so ends the story of those old Polynesians, for Ira was a voyager 
i have 
to the Maori) visited Port Nicholson, some Maori people appear to 
been living ^ Worser Bay, and a place on Seatoun Flat was named, after 
him, Te Pou a Amuketi. = 
The Atiawa tribe was not strong in numbers, and at Lem ме they 
were situated “ between the devil and the deep pg They purse 
but indifferent friends in Ngati-Toa at Porirua, while the Wai-rarapa natn 
and compelled the captain to conve 
where they much enjoyed s 
unwarlike descendants of refugees who 
six generations before. 
When Captain Cook purge = 
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кет р анчы йаг the пеги: — D ue Th -— 
entered it tedly without such visits being . , 
the hai. ead. to have been the first European to enter the harbour, 
