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care to provide for such supplies of food as would carry them through the 
first stage of their intended journey, whilst he also determined in detail the 
principal arrangements for the entire march. These preparations having all 
been satisfactorily completed by the beginning of the year 1819, he visited 
Waikato, for the last time, in order to bid farewell to Kukutai, to Pehikorehu, 
to Wherowhero, to Te Kanawa, and to all the chiefs of Waikato, saying to 
them, “ Farewell ; remain on our land at Kawhia ; I am going to take Kapiti 
for myself, do not follow me.” He then returned to Kawhia, where he at 
once assembled his tribe and started for the South, the number leaving 
` Kawhia itself, including persons of all ages, being about 400, of whom 170 
were tried fighting men. On the morning of the day of their departure, he 
and his people came out of their pa at Te Arawi, having previously burned 
the carved house named Te Urungu-Paraoa-a-te-Titi-Matama. They then 
ascended the hill at Moeatoa, and looking back to Kawhia were very sad at 
leaving the home of their fathers.. They cried over it, and bade it farewell, 
saying, “ Kawhia remain here! The people of Kawhia are going to Kapiti, 
to Waipounamu.” 
Savage, even ruthless, as those people may have been, we can still under- 
stand their sorrow at leaving their ancestral possessions. ‘The love of the 
New Zealander for his land is not,” says Mr. White (from whom I have 
before quoted on this point), “the love ofa child for his toys. His title is 
connected with many and powerful associations in his mind ; his love for the 
homes of his fathers being connected with the deeds of their bravery, with 
the feats of his own boyhood, and the long rest of his ancestors for genera- 
tions.” Every nook and inlet of the beautiful harbour of Kawhia was 
endeared to the departing people, not only by its picturesque beauty, which 
the New Zealander fully appreciates, but also by its association with the 
most ancient traditions of the tribe. Every hill, every valley, was connected, 
in their memory, with scenes of childish joy, whilst many of the singular and 
gloomy caverns in which the district abounds, were crowded with the remains 
of their ancestors, and were the subjects of their reverence and awe ; and from 
these circumstances, not less than from the uncertainty which necessarily hung 
over the future of the tribe, we may estimate the strength of their faith in 
the sagacity of the chief who had induced them to embark in so remarkable a 
__ project. 
The march was at length commenced, and at the end of the third or fourth 
day the people arrived at the Pa of Puohoki, where Te Rauparaha determined 
on leaving, under a sufficient guard, a number of the women (including his 
own wife, Akau) who, by reason of pregnancy, was unfit for travel. The 
remainder of the tribe continued their journey, and settled for the season at 
Waitara, Kaweka, and Taranaki, living in the pas of the Ngatiawa and 
