Locke. — Historical Traditions of Tavpo and East Coast Tribes. 435 



Taixpo is derived. It is so called from the place where he slept, near a 

 small waterfall over a projecting rock on the east side of the lake, viz., 

 Taupo-nui-a-Tia ; perhaps he slept or rested there long at night. 



After the Arawa landed at Maketu, Tia and Maaka travelled by way of 

 Kaharoa, Eotorua, Horohoro, Whakamaru, Titiraupenga, and round the 

 west side of Taupo — the side next to Waikato. They did not return to 

 Maketu, hut died near Taupo at Titiraupenga. Their skulls have been seen 

 by this generation carried to the kumara grounds that the crops might be 

 plentiful, a custom which is of very ancient date with the Maoris. This is 

 all about these ancestors. 



Tia's descendants reside at Taupo. All the great men of the district 

 trace their genealogies back to him nineteen generations : — 



Tia, Apa, Tamaapa, Tamaaia Tamaariki, Tamatatonga, Tatekura, Tua- 

 hatana, Takapumanuka, Kahupaunamu, Taimeneharangi, Hiko, wife of 

 Tamamutu (grandson of Tuwharetoa) Kapawa, Meremere, Eangi-tua-Mato- 

 toru, Eangihirauea, Tumu, Maniapoto — in all nineteen generations. 



Te Heuheu, Hare Tauteka, and the other chiefs, go back to the same 

 ancestor in their genealogies. 



Ko Ngatoro-i-rangi. 



This is an account of one of our renowned ancestors who visited the sea 

 of Taupo and the open country, the forests, and the plains around. He 

 came to this island from Hawaiki in the Arawa canoe, which landed first at 

 Whanga-paroa (near East Cape), then sailed on to Whakatane and Maketu. 

 After Ngatoro-i-rangi had resided on the coast for a time he travelled inland 

 by way of Kanakaua, Euawahia, Te Puna-takahi. After crossing the Kai- 

 ngaroa plains he reached Tauhara Mountain, which he ascended, and from 

 thence looked down on the Sea of Taupo and at the snow-capped Tongariro 

 in the distance. From the top of Tauhara he threw a large tree into the 

 lake, a distance of four miles, which is still to be seen by this generation ; 

 it is sticking up at the bottom of the lake near Wharewaka. The name of 

 Ngatoro's spear is the " kuwha." Ngatoro-i-rangi then descended to the 

 shores of the lake, near the Waipahihi, and performed incantations, and 

 erected a tuaahu and named it Taharepa. When he discovered there were no 

 fish in Taupo Lake he scattered the threads of his mat on the waters and per- 

 formed religious rites, and the lake at once contained fish, viz., the inanga 

 and the kokojni. He then travelled along the shores of the lake and ascended 

 Tengariro, and was there benumbed with the cold on that snowy mountain. 

 (His companion Ngauruhoe died here from the cold). So Ngatoro commenced 

 calling out to his sisters to bring him fire from Hawaiki, for they had been 

 left behind at Hawaiki. The sound that proceeded from his mouth was like 

 thunder. His sisters heard him and came at once bringing fire.* Their canoe 



* See " Nga Mahinga a Nga Tupuna Maori" in Polynesian Mythology : — Sir G. Grey. 



