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of these was Tama-te-Kapiia, son of Houmai-tawhiti, whose people had suflered 

 severely in war with Uenuku, and who dreaded further reprisals for some 

 unjustifiable acts of cannibalism which they had recently committed. Having 

 constructed several canoes, amongst which the more celebrated were the 

 ' Arawa ' and the ' Tainui/ they left Hawaiki for New Zealand, and in due 

 time arrived on the East Coast, the ' Tainui ' first reaching the land. In 

 consequence of disputes as to the ownership of a dead whale, the immigrants 

 soon separated, some going tp the northward, some to the southward, and some, 

 crossing the portage at Otahuhu, proceeding to occupy the country on the 

 western side of the Island. It is evident that the incident of the dead whale 

 mentioned in the account of this principal migration, is the same which is 

 referred to in the " Legend of the Emigration of Manaia," for we find the 

 ' Toko-maru,' the canoe in which Manaia is reported to have made the voyage 

 from Hawaiki, amongst those which were dragged across the portage at the 

 time above referred to. 



It is not necessary for my purpose to go any further into the particulars 

 attending the alleged voyages, but I think I have shown, that although we 

 may accept as a fact, singularly preserved, that the ancestoj-s of the present 

 New Zealanders came to this country from some other land, the accounts given 

 of the incidents which occurred during the voyages are in themselves too 

 improbable to j ustify our treating them, in any degree, as records of contem- 

 poraneous events. 



I will now proceed to inquire into the date assigiied by the legends to 

 these migrations, and the result will, I think, strongly confirm the above 

 position. 



Amongst the persons who are said to have arrived in the 'Tainui,' with 

 the great migration was Hotunui, who, after the separation of the people 

 consequent upon the disputes about the whale, went and settled at Kawhia. 

 Here he had a son born to him, named Maru-tuaha, whom, however, he never 

 saw until the latter had reached man's estate, for it appears that on account 

 of some false accusation of theft, Hotunui had, before the biitli of his son, 

 abandoned his family and his settlement at Kawhia, and gone to live at 

 Whakatiwai, in the Gulf of Hauraki. Here he married a sister of a chief 

 named Te Whata, by whom he had another son, whom he nauied Paka. 

 When Maru-tuaha reached man's estate he went to seek his father, and on 

 his way across the island, and when close to his father's new settlement, was 

 met by the two daughters of Te Whata, the elder of whom at once fell in love 

 with him. The account of the meeting of the father and son is very 

 interesting, as well as that of the circumstances under which Maru-tuaha and 

 his half-brother Paka afterwards married the two daughters of Te Whata, the 

 former, however, marrying the younger and more comely of the two. Maru- 



