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tualia appears to have settled at Whakatiwai, with his father, Hotunui, and 

 to have engaged in wars with neighbouring jjeople, in wliich he was successful, 

 adding greatly to his father's territory. We then learn that Paka, tho 

 younger son of Hotunui, had a daughter named Te Kahureremoa, famed for 

 her beauty, and whom her father was desirous of uniting in marriage to 

 a son of the then chief of the Great Barrier Island, in order that the ultimate 

 possession of that island might be secured for his own family. Now this 

 project did not suit the fancy of Te Kahureremoa, who, with the caprice 

 common to beautiful women, had chosen to fall in love with another, in th'j 

 person of Takakopiri, chief of Otawa, whom she had seen and admired during 

 a visit he had paid to her father, and whom she had made up her mind to 

 marry. We are not informed, in the legend, whether any understanding on 

 the subject existed between Te Kahureremoa and the young chief of Otawa, 

 but it is probable that he had expressed some admiration of her during his 

 visit, and that she felt pretty sure of her ground, for we find that when hei- 

 father broke his wishes to her respecting the Barrier Island chief, she at once 

 made arrangements for flight, and, accompanied only by a single female slave, 

 actually fled towards Otawa. Having nearly reached this place, she fell in 

 with Takako2)iri, who was out upon a hunting expedition, and the result was 

 that they were shortly afterwai-ds married with great pomp and ceremony. 



Now, Te Kahureremoa is said to have borne a daughter to Takakopiri, named 

 Tuparalieke, "from whom," in the words of the legend, " in eleven generations, 

 or in about 275 years, have sprung all the principal chiefs of the Ngatihaua 

 tribe, alive in 1853." Adding the lives of Tuparaheke, of Te Kahureremoa, 

 and of Paka, the son of Hotunui, who is said to have accompanied the firsl. 

 great migration from Hawaiki, to these eleven generations, we have only 

 fourteen generations, or about 350 years ago, as the assigned date of that 

 event. 



It will thus be seen that the '' Traditions," if entitled to be taken as 

 narratives of events contemporaneous with, or immediately following thj 

 alleged migrations, would lead us to the following conclusions, namely : — 



1st. That these islands were twice discovered, within a limited period, by 

 voyagers from Hawaiki. 



2nd. That upon the visit of Kupe, the supposed first discoverer, and who 

 expressly reported that he had circumnavigated tlie islands, they were foum.' 

 to be uninhabited; whilst Ngahue, being silent on this point, may be said to 

 have afiirmed the same fact. 



3rd. That the migrations consequent upon the reported discoveries of Kup ■ 

 and Ngahue, though successive, all took place within a very limited porioci, 

 and were not followed by any further arrivals from Hawaiki. 



4th. That although the number of persons who emigrated was not larg ■ , 



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