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Te Eangi iliia was buried in accordance with his own desire on the peak 

 Te raka a rimga te raki, " that his spirit might see from thence his old 

 haunts to the southward." His wife and childi'en were sent hack to their 

 friends in the north, while Te Hau took up his quarters at Pukekura. 

 Final Destruction of Nijatimamoe. 



Many years after Eangi iliia's death, his bones were carried down by a 

 landshp to the beach, where, being picked uj) by a Ngai Tahu, he made a 

 fish-hook of one, and when using this made some insolent remark about the 

 old man on the hill holding the hapuku well, A Ngatimamoe who was 

 present reported the words to his companions, who remarked, " The two 

 brothers died in open fight, but this man has been dishonoured after death, 

 and the insult must be avenged." An opjoortunity occurred shortly after for 

 accomplishing their meditated act of retahatiou. A party had been sent from 

 Pukekura to Eauone to collect fern-root. There Taue toro tika, son of 

 Taoka and grandson of Manawa, a young chief of very high rank, was 

 surprised and taken prisoner ; on being carried to the presence of Te 

 Maui, that chief seeing him said, " This comb-fastening is equal to that 

 comb-fastening," and thereupon killed him. Tai kawa, a Ngai Tahu 

 warrior, immediately after the deed, came upon the band of Ngatimamoe 

 and asked what had become of the prisoner. When told that they had 

 killed him, he said, "You have done foolishly, for not a soul of you will now 

 be spared ; you will be banished to the haunts of the Moho, and in the 

 depths of the forest will be your only safety." 



This threat was soon after carried into effect by Te Hau, who, after a 

 series of engagements, di'ove the remnants of Ngatimamoe into the dense 

 forests that cover the south-western coast, where further pursuit was 

 useless. Traces of these fugitives have been met with up to a very recent 

 date. 



About fifty years ago Te Eimu rapa, while on his way to plunder a 

 sealing-station, discovered a woman who called herself Tu ai te kura ; 

 finding that she was a Ngatimamoe, he cruelly killed and devoured her on 

 the spot. About six years afterwards Te wae wae surprised two men while 

 he was out eel-spearing near Aparima, but they escaped before he could 

 catch them. In 1842 a sealing party, while pulling up one of the sounds, 

 observed smoke issuing from the face of a chff. Climbing to the spot they 

 found a cave evidently just deserted. It was portioned across the middle — 

 the inner part being used as a sleeping place, the outer for cooking. They 

 found a handsome feather-mat, a patu paraoa, some fish-hooks, and some 

 flax-baskets in process of making. An attempt was made to pursue the 

 late inmates, but it had to be abandoned, for the undergrowth in the forest 

 was so dense, and the paths so numerous, that the pursuers were afraid of 



