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pointed out as being part of the "Tainui." Tliis rock, with the land immediately 

 surrounding it, was formerly under strict tapu, but the sanctity of the place, 

 and of the supposed relic, have succumbed to the march of civilisation, and 

 curiosity-hunters have long since marred the picturesque outline of the stone 

 by breaking off corners. Hoturoa is also said to be the ancestor of the 

 Ngatiraukawa, Ngatikowhata and Ngatimaniapoto tribes, the order of descent 

 in the several cases being much as follows : — From Hoturoa, through Hotuma- 

 tapu and Kouwe, sprang Raka, whose eldest son, Tuihaua, was the ancestor of 

 Toa Rangatira, the actual founder of the Ngatitoa as a separate tribe, and 

 from whom they derive their name. From another son of Raka, named 

 Kakati, through Tawhao and Turonga, sprang Eaukawa, from whom the 

 Ngatii-aukawa derive their name. From Toa Rangatira, in direct descent, 

 came Kimihia, the mother of Werawera, who married a Ngatiraukawa woman 

 named Parekowhatu. These two were the parents of Te Rauparaha, and of 

 his sister Waitohi, the mother of Rangihaieta, who will be frequently 

 mentioned in the course of this narrative. Besides Te Rangihaieta, Waitohi 

 had other children, of whom a daughter named Topiora is still living at Otaki, 

 and is the mother of Matene Te Whiwhi, for many years past, and still, one of 

 the most influential chiefs of the Ngatitoa and Ngatiraukawa tribes. Topiora's 

 husband was a iJ^gatiraukawa man, of high rank, named Te Rangi Kapiki, 

 who himself claimed to be closely connected to Ngatitoa, both by ancient 

 descent and through frequent intermarriages between members of the two 

 tribes. Tracing back again, we find Te XJrutira and his sister, Hine Kahu- 

 kura, in the third place in the ascending line from Toa Rangatira. From 

 Hine Kahukura sprang Parewahawaha and Parekowhatu, the former of whom 

 married Tihau, by whom she had a son named "VYhatanui, the father of the 

 great chief of that name, who was at the head of the Ngatiraukawa tribe, 

 during the career of Te Rauparaha. We see, therefore, that the leading chiefs 

 of the Ngatitoa and Ngatiraukawa tribes claim descent from common 

 ancestors, and that frequent intermarriages took place between the members of 

 these tribes, since they branched off from the common stock. The same 

 remarks apply, but in less degree, to the descent of the Ngatimaniapoto and 

 Ngatikowhata, who also claim Hoturoa as their remote ancestor; but it is 

 unnecessary, for the purposes of my story, that I should trace up the histoiy 

 of these tribes, as they do not appear to have taken any prominent part 

 in the events in which the Ngatitoa were engaged after their departure from 

 Kawhia. 



As my readers are doubtless aware, Kawhia is the only harbour of any 

 note between the Manukau, which lies about sixty miles to the northward of 

 it, and Wanganui, which lies at some distance within the entrance of Cook 

 Straits ; but, like all the other harbours on the West Coast of the North 



