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caused the pauas to stick to bis own body, also his head, and then returned 

 to shore. Those sticking on his head were carried to the sacred place as 

 offerings to the gods : the others were eaten by the people. Then all the 

 men of the village were collected to haul the kits ashore, but they could 

 not ; so all the people from the neighbouring pas were called, and then they 

 succeeded in hauling the paua ashore, and all the multitude feasted on 

 them. 



Then the people, seeing the great works of this man and how he could 

 collect food, wondered, and contrasted their own chief Tamatakutai, who 

 could only carve wood, etc., and did not collect food, so they took away 

 Eongomaiwahine from him, and gave her to Kahungunu, and they 

 begat — 



Kahukuranui 



Tupurupuru 

 Eangituehu 

 Hineao 



Huhuti, whose husband was the Whatu-i-apiti. 

 From them are derived the principal families of the whole tribe of Nga- 

 tikahungunu. 



The Migration from Poverty Bay {Turanga) to Haivke's Bay (Heretaowja). 

 Turanga was formerly the home of the present Maori owners of the land 

 about Napier, Hawke's Bay, but through the murder of two children, the 

 twins of Kahutapere and Eongomaitara, sister of Eakai-te-hikuroa, they 

 were driven thence. The names of the children were Tarakuita and Tara- 

 kitai. How it happened was in this way : — Eakai-te-hikuroa (grandson of 

 Kahungunu, and fourth from Tamatea, who with Eongokaka came from 

 Hawaiki) felt annoyed that the preserved food, such as birds cured in cala- 

 bashes in their own fat, should be given to the twins in place of being kept 

 for his son Tupurupuru. He therefore determined on destroying his sister's 

 children. The plan he decided on was this : —The children were in the 

 habit of playing whip-top during the day. In Eakai-te-hikuroa's ^w, named 

 Maunga-puremu, near the present village of Ormond, there was a kumera 

 pit by the side of the path. When the children commenced to play, Eakai- 

 te-hikuroa walked up and knocked the tops into the hole, and then told the 

 twins to get them out again. Immediately they were in the hole he filled it 

 up. As evening advanced the parents became anxious and searched in every 

 direction, but could not discover their children. They then made kites of 

 raupo leaf (Typha anyustifolia) shaped like hawks, covering the outside with 

 aute* — paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) ; these kites were sent up 



* The aute (Broussonetia papyrifera) is said to have been brought by the early Maori 

 settlers, and cultivated to make clothing of the bark ; it is now extinct. 



