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Eangitikei, and over a great part of the Southern and Stewart Islands, where 

 they still remain, and are there called Kaitahu. 



The tribes now residing south of Kawhia, known as Te Atiawa, are also 

 said to have come from Hawaiki, in their canoe Tokomaru. This canoe made 

 the coast of ISTeAv Zealand at night, and the land was first discovered in a 

 singular manner, by the barking of a dog on board, which scented the 

 carcass of a whale stranded on the beach. This, from the similarity of the 

 circumstances mentioned, seems to have been the same place as that spoken 

 of in the traditions of the Arawa as their landing place. The story goes, 

 that a dispute having arisen between them and the crew of another canoe as 

 to the proprietorship of the whale and of the land, Manaia, the chief of 

 Tokomaru, resolved to go elsewhere. He and his party therefore sailed 

 northward till they arrived at the extremity of the land, and then coasted 

 along the western shore till they made Taranaki, where they finally settled. 



Subsequently to the discovery of New Zealand by Cook, the Atiawa were 

 driven southward by Waikato, in the absence of a large portion of them who 

 had joined Te Rauparaha in his wars -against Kahuhunu, of Cook Strait, and 

 the natives of the South Island. "When Colonel Wakefield reached New 

 Zealand he found this division settled at Waikanae and Port Nicholson, from 

 which places they had expelled the Ngatikahuhunu. 



In their raid on the tribes dwelling on the southern shores of the North 

 Island, they were not able to conquer the tribes dwelling about the River 

 "Wanganui, as these fled up the river and found refuge in the protection of 

 its rapids and in its precipitous and wooded banks. 



As to the Wanganui tribe, the tradition is that their ancestors came to 

 New Zealand in a canoe named Aotea, and gave its name to the small 

 harbour on the west coast, where they first landed. At that place the canoe 

 was abandoned, and the crew, with their chief Turi, proceeding on foot 

 along the shore to the southward, at last settled down on the River Patea. 

 Prom Turi and his wife Rongorongo sprang the tribes Wanganui and 

 Ngatimamoe. As they found no inhabitants as they came along the coast, 

 this migration, if we credit the tale, must have been anterior to that of Te 

 Atiawa. / ,1/ ,-i, '.■ . r 



It is related by the other tribeS-that attempts have several times been 

 made to return to Hawaiki ; and within the last twenty -five years an 

 instance occurred at Tauranga, where a family fitted out and provisioned a 

 canoe for a long voyage, and then put to sea with the design of returning to 

 that island, having no better guide than the stars and the tradition of its 

 position. The fate of these intrepid voyagers was of course never known in 

 New Zealand ; but that such an undertaking should ever have been 

 deliberately planned and entered on is hardly credible, and we should look 



