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ocean was like sand-clouds of the desert in a gale. All were destroyed — 

 the great host of Manahua were engulphed in the ocean — none escaped. 

 That people were utterly destroyed, and the destruction was called Maiku- 

 kutea. Thus were the people of Hawaiki destroyed by those of this island, 

 and the curse of Manaia avenged." 



This ends the story of Ngatoro-i-te rangi. That tohunga was the chief 

 priest of the Arawa when they sailed from Hawaiki, From him are de- 

 scended the people of Taupo, viz., Tuwharetoa and Aopouri, twenty-five 

 generations. 



Ngatoro-i-rangi, 2 Tangaroa, 3 Tupai, 4 Irawitiki, B Kiwi, "Kakeroa, 7 Eongo- 

 mai-nui, 8 Eongo-mai-roa, 9 Eongo-mai-a-pehu, 10 Apehumatua, "Mawake- 

 roa, 12 Mawake Taupo, 13 Tuivharetoa, "Eakeihapukia, 15 Taringa, 16 Tutetawha, 

 "Earjgiita, 18 Piungatai, 19 Mahuika, 20 Poinga, 21 Tumaro, 22 Whatupounamu, 

 23 Tauiteka, 24 Hare Tauteka, 26 Matini Tauteka. So also do the Poihipi, Heu- 

 heu, Hohepa, and other chiefs go back to Ngatoro-i-rangi and Tuwharetoa 

 in their genealogies. 



Ko Tuwharetoa. 



The following is an account of Tuwharetoa, a renowned ancestor, after 

 whom is named the tribe possessing the country around Taupo and Eotoaira 

 Lakes, the mountains of Tongariro and Euapehu, the rich Patea, Kariori, 

 Murimutu, Kaingaroa and Okahukura plains. 



Tuwharetoa, of Aripouri, was an Arawa, and lived at Tamarakau, at the 

 Awa-o-te-atua and Kawerau. He was renowned as a warrior, and had 

 fought the tribes living on the coast ; and, having subdued them, had 

 returned home and hung up his weapons in his house. He and his people, 

 together with those of Tutewero, son of Maruka, having made the neigh- 

 bouring tribes to fear them. 



After a time it occurred to Hatupere to fight with Tuwharetoa and 

 Tutewero. Now Tuwharetoa was living at peace with his wife, Hineuotu 

 and his children, — some ten or twelve, — at Kawerau, and was quite igno- 

 rant of the attack on Tutewero. Hatupere and the Marangaranga were 

 defeated and fled towards the Whaiti and the mountains dividing Taupo 



* That Ngatoro-i-rangi and his one hundred and forty picked men afterwards went to 

 Hawaiki, as stated, and landed at Tara-i-whenua, and that he then consulted with his 

 sister Kui-wai, and from her learned the movements of the people, by which means he was 

 enabled to lay his plans : and that, after the capture of the pa Whaitiri-ka-papa, and the 

 proper incantations and offerings had been made to the gods, another battle took place, 

 called Tarai-whenua-kura, in which Manaia was defeated, and that then Ngatoro-i-rangi 

 and people returned to Maketu and Motiti, and the battle of Taiparipari and Maikukutea 

 occurred, — vide Sir George Grey's " Polynesian Mythology," " The Curse of Manaia," 

 English translation, for the full account of this and many other interesting tra- 

 ditions. 



