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The present Te Heuheu, moreover, erected in his memory a 
mausoleum (Wahi-tapu), said to have been a master-piece of Maori - 
architecture. All we found remaining of it , were at the lower 
end of the Pah, under picturesque groups of Karaka and Kowai 
trees, several artificially carved posts with most note-worthy repre- 
sentations, which all seemed to have reference to the inexhaustible 
manly vigour of the departed hero and to the prolificness of his 
numerous wives. Within the enclosure of the Pah there live besides 
Te Heuheu only his nearest kinsmen and friends. In the lower 
part I noticed moreover , a cucumber-patch , and a piece of a 
vineyard, started by the Rev. Mr. Taylor, but now utterly neglec- 
ted. The vines were full of grapes, which, however, were sour 
and utterly unfit to eat. Outside the Pah various huts are scattered 
about, the dwellings of Te Heulieu’ s subjects. 
The proud chief returned my visit in an elegant suit of black. 
Many another hour did I sit together with the interesting man 
during my stay at Pukawa, listening to his observations and reci- 
tals. It is from his lips, that I have the interesting legends, which 
in the tradition of the Maoris are attached to the Taupo country, 
and which I shall recite here-after. In his political views, he 
proved himself a zealous advocate of the national party, avow- 
ing most solemnly, that he would never visit again the “Pakelia- 
City u Auckland, where at his last visit he had been treated like 
a dog. At our departure he sent me word through the missionary, 
that he would be glad to receive and keep me again at any future 
time; that however he warned the Englishman, who accompanied 
me by order of the Governor, from a second visit to his Pah; 
stating that he had tolerated the latter only on my account, I 
being a stranger and not master of the Maori-language. 
That was Te Heuheu ^ one of the few surviving representa- 
tives of the old heathen-times, around whose head there is still a 
faint halo of that romantic heroism, which like a dim, dark legend 
reminds us of the classical age of a savage cannibal people, hasten- 
ing, under the influences of European civilization, with rapid 
strides towards its final extinction. 
