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Ngai Tahu ; and the Ngatimamoe, as a distinct aud independent tribe, may 

 be said to liave perislied at Teilioka. Those in alliance with Ngai Tahu 

 were still numerous, but their position was felt to be so insecure that, on 

 the return of Turakautahi's sons fi-om their successful raid, Te Eangi ihia, 

 a noted Ngatimamoe chief residing at Matau, determined to proceed to 

 Kaiapoi and make lasting terms of peace with the conquerors. He was 

 kindly received ; and to cement the treaty then made, Hine hakiri, one of 

 the ruling family of Ngai Tahu, was given to him in marriage ; and his own 

 sister, Kohiwai, was married to Hone kai, son of Te Hau. Eangi ihia 

 resided with his wife's relations till after the birth of his son Pari, when 

 they advised him to return, as it was their wish to embody Eangi iliia's 

 ha]pu with their own and to make the boy chief of both. Te Hau and 

 Turakautahi's sons escorted Eangi ihia to the south. On reaching home 

 he was shocked to see one of his sisters cooking food like a common slave. 

 When leaving her behind, he had taken care to provide such attendance as 

 befitted her rank, and he could not account for her being reduced to such 

 straits as to be obliged to cook her own food. Supx^ressing his indignation till 

 night-fall, he took the opportunity when all was quiet of asking her why she 

 had so demeaned herself. She then told him that, after he left, her maids 

 married and deserted her. Seizing his weapons, Eangi ihia having ascer- 

 tained where they were to be found went to the house occupied by the 

 runaways and killed both the women. As he turned his back to go out again, 

 one of the husbands drove a spear into his shoulder, the point breaking off 

 against the bone. On reaching his own whare, Te Hau pulled this out with 

 his teeth, and applied a toetoe plaster to the wound. Yv^hile Eangi ihia was 

 recovering, he unfortunately sneered at the weakness of the arm which had 

 struck him: "Had it been my own the thrust would have been fatal." 

 This coming to the ears of the hajured men, they scraped the end of the 

 spear and got off the dry blood adhering to it, and, by performing incanta- 

 tions over it, produced symptoms of madness in Eangi iliia, who shortly 

 afterwards died. Before his death, he turned to his friend Te Hau and 

 said, " When I am gone, do not let my brothers live ; they are bitter men, 

 and will slay my children." It was at Otepoti where he was being treated 

 for his wound and died. His brothers and their people were camped at a 

 short distance off on the other end of the bay. On calling out one day to 

 ask how the patient was, then- suspicions were roused by the way in which 



the answer was given. The person replying called out, "He is ," and 



then paused suddenly as if being remonstrated with, finishing the sentence 

 by saying — "gone with his wife and childi-en." Ngatimamoe entered the 

 Ngai Tahu camp shortly after, when Te Hau, mindful of the dying chief's 

 charge, fell upon his brothers, Tailma and Te Eangiamohia, and killed them. 



