4 50 7 'ra nsactw ns. — ]l Ihceilanemis. 



of Tiere (at Eoro-o-kuri Island, Napier Harbour), and the delicious fern-root 

 at Pukehou (at Petane), and the fat rats at Eamariki (near Arapauanui), and 

 the glutinous /muas at Tahito (near Arapauanui)." This saying was not 

 Tamatea's, but his son's (Kahungunu). [I would draw attention here to 

 the fact that all the places mentioned by Kahungunu in this account appear 

 to have been well known by name, and celebrated for their various products. 

 The same remark applies to places mentioned in other traditions — a certain 

 evidence that people had been there of old, and that the country was well 

 known at the time.] 



The father then said, " Are you longing for our home, if so, return ?" 

 The son replied, " No, it was only a sigh of remembrance." Here also the 

 lizard scratched in its calabash, so it was taken out and a heitiki (a green- 

 stone ornament) was fastened to its neck. It was then placed in a rock 

 cave, and a tree was planted and named Pohukura. The lizard is still 

 there, and its mana has not left it. When it roars it is an indication 

 of bad weather. Then they travelled on to the forest to Haupuru, and 

 Turangakira, a rock cave. People journeying generally stop there for 

 shelter. One of the party of Ngaitamahine died there from the frost and 

 snow ; thence on to Eeporoa and then ascended the mountains at a place 

 called Eanga-a-Tamatea. Here they left a lizard and called the place 

 Aorangi. They afterwards arrived at a settlement near the Wanganui. 

 The chief's name was Tarinuku, who offered the travellers food, including 

 a calabash of preserved birds. Tamatea ate up all the birds, at which 

 Kahungunu was angry, and quarrelled with his father, so they separated, 

 each going by a different road. Kahungunu travelled on by way of Nga- 

 pumakaka, Owhaoko Taruarau, Ngaruroro, Ngahuinga, at the head-waters 

 of the Mohaka Eiver, and through to Kaingaroa (Taupo Plains), then re- 

 turned to Tauranga, and there dwelt. 



The father, Tamatea, after his son left him at the pa of Tarinuku, 

 journeyed on to Wharekanae, Paraheke, the Hoko, and crossed the Whan- 

 ganui at Tawhitimu, thence along in the river to Hikurangi and cast 

 anchor at the Punga, then on by Manganui-o-te-ao, Whakapapa, thence 

 across Okahukura Plains to Eotoaira at foot of Tongariro Mountain, then 

 on to Taupo Lake at the Eapa, thence on to Waihi and Pungarehu. There 

 he obtained a canoe and crossed Lake Taupo with his companions to its 

 outlet, where he landed, and through the earth sounding hollow under his 

 feet he called the place Tapixaeharuru (sounding footsteps). Tamatea 

 boasted to the people residing there that he could descend the Waikato 

 Eiver to Okoro in his canoe. The name of his canoe was Uapiko. The 

 people of the place warned him of the dangerous waterfalls, but what was 

 that to this brave chieftain ; away he started in his canoe. He passed on 



