Locke. — Historical Traditions of Taupo and East Coast Tribes. 445 



rallied, however, and the fighting continued to rage in Taupo, many on 

 both sides being destroyed ; so much so that several of the Taupo people 

 became afraid and fled. Those from Lower Taupo went to the Arawa, 

 Eotokakahi, and Lake Tarawera, others to Tarawera beyond Eunanga. 



The people who remained to keep possession of Upper Taupo were the 

 Heuheu and his hapu, and Tauteka and Kangi-monehunehu with two 

 hundred men of their hapus. The name of the pa in which they were 

 collected was Whakatara. 



The hapu which kept possession of Lower Taupo was Ngatirangiita, 

 comprising the families of Matatoru, Hautapu, Tauarai, and Wharengaro. 

 The pa in which they collected was called the Tarata. From these pas, the 

 only ones held in Taupo, fighting was carried on without ceasing until 

 peace was made. After everything was quiet, those who had fled returned 

 to their former habitations. Thus have the Ngatituwharetoa maintained 

 their mana in Taupo. 



Part II. 

 I stated in my introduction to the first part of these readings that I was 

 one of those who firmly believed that the Maoris have occupied this country 

 for a more lengthened period than is generally supposed, and that their 

 traditions go far to prove that these islands were inhabited long before the 

 arrival of the much-talked-of (mythical?) canoes, viz., the Arawa, Tainui, 

 and others, and that in these readings I would confine myself as far as 

 possible to traditionary evidence. The more this question is investigated 

 by an unbiassed mind, the more clear I think it will appear that such is 

 the case ; for instance, I would draw attention to the facts set forth in Mr. 

 Colenso's able essay on " The Maori Baces"* in the Transactions and 

 the many other articles referring to the Maoris by the same gentleman 

 in various volumes of that work. Again in the " Mythology and Traditions of 

 the New Zealanders," and the "Poetry of the New Zealanders," by Sir George 

 Grey. The Eev. E. Taylor, in his "Ika a Maui,"t shows clearly what his 

 opinion is on the matter. Then we have, in vols. x. and xii. of the " Transac- 

 tions," — " Traditional History of the South Island Maoris," by the Eev. J. W. 

 Stack, and the many contributions on the subject by the Eev. J. F. H. 

 Wohlers ; and also of Dr. Hector, Messrs. E. C. Barstow, Travers, Goodall, 

 and the important discoveries by Dr. von. Haast and others in regard to 

 the ancient caves and moa-hunters. I might also quote Dr. von. Hoch- 

 stetter's "New Zealand," in chapters ix. and x. of which volume he 

 argues that Hawaiki and the legendary canoes and migration are all 



* Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. i. 

 t " Ika a Maui," 2 ed., pp. 153-4, 258, 290, 291. 



