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with Rauparaha, should at once proceed to occupy Ohau, then in the possession 
of the Ngatiawa. Having been assembled for this purpose they were escorted 
to their new location by Rauparaha and all the principal chiefs of Ngatitoa, 
travelling along the beach. On their way up they were feasted by Ngatirahira 
(a hapu of Ngatiawa) upon the flesh of black-fish, a large school of which had 
been driven ashore at low water, where the natives ingeniously tethered them 
by their tails with strong flax ropes, killing them as they were wanted for 
food. The Ngatiraukawa having been put into quiet possession of the houses 
and cultivations of the Ngatiawa, the latter removed to Waikanae, which 
continued for some time afterwards to be their principal settlement. The 
wisdom of Waitohi’s suggestion above referred to is apparent from the fact 
that no further land disputes occurred between the several tribes until the 
fighting at Horowhenua many years afterwards, as will be related in the 
sequel, 
Between this event and the date of Whatanui’s return to Kapiti with the 
main body of his people, a heke composed of 140 fighting men with their 
families—called the heke kariritahi, from the circumstance that the warriors 
armed with muskets, had enlarged the touch-holes so as to be enabled (shrewd 
fellows as they were) to keep up a more rapid fire upon an enemy by saving the 
trouble of priming—came down from Maungatautari under the command of 
Taratoa. Whatanui accompanied this heke for the purpose of conferring 
with Rauparaha on matters of importance, but finding that the chief was 
absent, he at once returned to Taupo in order to bring down his people. The 
constant arrival of these armed bodies, and the manner in which they roamed 
over the Manawatu and Rangitikei districts, treating the remnant of the 
Ngatiapa and other original tribes with the greatest rigour, induced the latter 
to throw themselves upon the hospitality of the Ngatikahungunu at Waira- 
rapa. In pursuance of this resolve, some 300 of them, including women and 
children, proceeded thither, but in consequence of a murder, followed by an act 
of cannibalism, which had been committed by some of the Rangitane upon a 
Ngatikahungunu man not long before, that tribe not only refused to receive 
the refugees, but attacked and drove them back with slaughter. The Ngatiapa 
then formally placed themselves at the mercy of Rangihaeata, whose connec- 
tion, so frequently alluded to, with a chief of their tribe induced him to treat 
them with leniency, and they were accordingly permitted to live in peace, but 
in a state of complete subjection. The remnant of the Muaupoko, in like 
_ manner, sought the protection of Tuauaine, a chief of the N gatiawa, who 
agreed to defend them against the long standing wrath of Rauparaha, but, as 
it appears, in vain ; for it seems that having been informed by some of the 
Ngatiraukawa that these people were again settling at Papaitangi and Horo- 
whenua, Rauparaha and Rangihaeata, with a war party of Ngatitoa and 
