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house being finished, Apanui was formally informed of it, and the day was 

 also fixed for him to bring his daughter, whose name was Eongomaihua- 

 tahi, to become the wife of Kapi, the son of Kahukuranui. Apanui, there- 

 fore, came with his daughter and people ; and they all entered into the new 

 large house, which had been built for the occasion. Then Kahukuranui 

 stirred up his people to bake plenty of food, and give a grand feast of good 

 things prepared — of eels, and cod-fish (hapukuj, and taro ; and so they 

 feasted that day. On the morning after, the people of that place baked 

 their morning's food for then' visitors, namely, pieces of wood, bits of supple- 

 jacks, flowers and flowering stems of the New Zealand flax, and stones, and 

 earth, — all kinds of rubbish ! * and then, after having placed their dressed 

 morning's meal properly before them in baskets, they suddenly fell upon 

 Apanui and his people and killed them all. Hence that district of Uawa 

 was taken from the elder son and became the land of the descendants of the 

 younger son Hauiti. 



[According to several genealogical lists which I have by me, and have 

 examined and compared, this affair took place 12 generations back. — W.C] 



4. The Tale of the Gkeat Lady Ruataupare. 

 Here begins the story of Euataupare. She was a woman of rank, and was 

 the wife of Tuwhakairiora. In course of time she bore him six children, of 

 whom four were girls and two were boys ; and these were then' names : the 

 first, Mariu; the second, Te Aotiraroa ; the third, Tukakahumai ; the fourth, 

 Te Atakura ; the fifth, Tuterangikawhiu ; and the sixth, Wehiwehi. f At 

 the birth of this last, of Wehiwehi, the mother, Euataupare, received serious 

 internal injury,! so that she dwelt apart in the sickhouse, on account of her 

 severe pains. Some time after the birth of this last child her husband 

 thought that she ^vas getting well ; but no, she continued very ill. On a 

 certain day the husband went to the house where she was to see the mother 

 of his childi-en and to enquire after her, when, after some talk, she said to 

 him, " 0, sir, listen to me. Wilt thou not be willing to go and fetch the 

 daughter of Te Aomania, to become a wife for thee ? " The husband replied 

 to her, "0, mother ! 0, mother ! and what of her own husband ? " The 

 wife rejoined, " 0, my lord, thou must also be saying that thou art a great 

 chief." On this he assented to the talk of his wife, that he should go thither 



* This was done to insult iirst before killing (having got them completely in their 

 power), and so to make death doubly bitter. In all such matters the New Zealanders 

 excelled ! 



\ Lit., Fearing; Apprehension. Named, no doubt, like Ichabod and Benoni, of the 

 Hebrews, from the circumstances attending his birth. 



\ Vagina lacera. 



