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to go any further, but to build bis pa where he was, at Pakilii. This he 

 consented to do, and Maru returned home. Not long afterwards a cu-cum- 

 stauce occurred which indicates the existence of such a curious state of 

 things, that it is hard to understand how any tribe could exist when subject 

 to such internal disorders, and where its leading members were animated by 

 such opposite motives. 



Maru's daughter Eakai te kura was betrothed in infancy to Te Eangi 

 tauhunga, son of Te Eangi whakaputa ; notwithstanding this, she married 

 with her father's consent Tu a keka; this so incensed Te Eangi whakaputa 

 that, on hearing of it, he went straight to Maru's enclosure and killed one 

 of his servants, Tu manawa rua, right before his face. So gross an outrage 

 could not be patiently borne, and Maru sought the protection of Tukiauau 

 with whom he remained till Te Eangi whakaputa was forced by the Ngai 

 Tahu, who regretted the absence of a favourite chief, to go and ask him to 

 come back. On his arrival at Pakihi Maru presented him with a large 

 poha or kelp-vessel full of preserved birds, which was called Tohu raumati. 

 Te Eangi whakaputa, while accepting it, refused to allow it to be opened, 

 saying, " It shall be for you Maru when you return to us." As soon as Maru 

 did reach Waipapa he proposed that the poha should be eaten on the war 

 path, as they had a death to avenge. Maru could not kill the man who 

 insulted him, nor any of his people, but he hoped that in fighting the 

 common enemy some of Te Eangi whakaputa's kin would be killed, and so 

 payment for his murdered servant and injured honour would be obtained. 

 Ngai Tahu, always eager for war, responded to his invitation and followed 

 him to the attack of Kura te au, a pa belonging to Ngaitaka. It was taken, 

 and amongst the prisoners was Hine Maka, a woman of rank, who was 

 brought to Maru in order that he might put her to death ; but instead of 

 doing so he gave her in marriage to his son, and when asked the reason for 

 this strange act his reply was, "When my descendants, the offspring of this 

 marriage, are taunted with being slaves on the mother's side, the particulars 

 will be enquired into, and then it wiU be found that the mother was taken 

 prisoner when the death of my father was being avenged, so that the memory 

 of my father's death having been avenged will be better preserved by sparing 

 this woman than by killing her." 



It was about this time that Ngai Tahu had a visit from a celebrated 

 Ngatimamoe chief Te Eangitauneke, who lived at Ohou near the Opihi 

 river. He came as the champion of his tribe for the purpose of challenging 

 Manawa to single combat with spears. But Manawa's friends would not 

 aUow him to accept the challenge, fearing that he might be killed. Maru, 

 however, was allowed to take it up, and at the appointed time, in the 

 presence of the assembled warriors, the two chiefs encountered each other. 



