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began to suspect that sometliing was wrong, and questioned his wife, who, 

 after a httle delay, confessed that one of his relations had been to her. 

 " But who was it?" he demanded. " Te ao hikuraki," she replied. The 

 moment that name was uttered the child was born. Tu maro, without going 

 near his wife, kept removing her from house to house till her purijfication 

 and that of the child was accomplished. Then he came to her early one 

 morning and told her to paint herself and the infant with red ochre ; 

 to put on her best mats, and to adorn her head with feathers. The woman 

 did as she was bid, wondering all the time what her husband meant to do. 

 "When she had finished adorning herself, Tu maro led her into the court-yard 

 of Te ao hikuraki, whom he found sitting under the veranda. "Here," 

 said he, "is your wife and child!" and then, without another word, he 

 turned away and went back to his own house. He then summoned all his 

 immediate friends and relations, and informed them that it was his intention 

 to leave the place immediately, as he could not live on friendly terms with 

 those who had dishonom^ed him. His father approved of the proposed step, 

 and acting on his advice their hapu, carrying with them their families and 

 all their moveable goods, crossed the straits and entered Blind Bay, along 

 the coast of which they sailed till they reached the mouth of the Waimea, 

 where they landed and built a pa. Here, for upwards of twenty years, the 

 Ngaitara, Ngatiwhata, and Ngatirua, sub-sections of the Ngai Tabu tribe, 

 separated from their main body at Hataitai, grew into such importance 

 through their alliance with Ngatimamoe, that they came at last to be 

 regarded more in the light of independent tribes than parts of one and the 

 same ; and this often complicates the narrative. 



But what serves to complicate still further the history of this period was 

 the existence of smaU settlements in the soiinds of natives from the west 

 coast of the North Island including detachments of Eangitane, Ngatiliauwa, 

 Ngatihape, Ngai te he iwi, Ngai tawake, Ngati whare puka, and Ngai tu rahui. 

 The Eangitane appear to have been the most important. Te Hau was their 

 chief, and his cultivations at Te Karaka, known as Kapara te hau and 

 kainga, are still pointed out. Kupe, the great navigator, is said to have 

 poured salt-water upon these cultivations for the purpose of destroying them, 

 and so formed pools which remain to this day (?). These natives never seem 

 to have extended their settlements much beyond the sounds, and little of 

 then- history worth recording has been preserved by the remnant of then' 

 descendants who escaped destruction at the hands of Te Eauparaha. 



Beyond YVaimea, the Ngatiwairangi and Ngatikopiha, who in common 

 with Ngatimamoe and Ngai Tahu were descended from Tura, took up their 

 abode and spread from there all down the west coast. 



About twenty-five years after the secession of Kaliukura te paku and his 



