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In tlie morning Manaia arose from his sleep,, and went to 
his marae, from afar he had seen the men laid in a heap 
quite dead, he looked also at his tuahu as he passed by, and 
there he saw Nga toro stretched out upon it as an offering to 
his god, immediately he returned and called out to his peo- 
ple, oh come forth, and see the fulfilment of my karakias to 
Homai Tawiti, behold they are all slain, and laid in the 
marae of my tuahu, come dig out an oven to cook our 
enemies, who have been killed by our god, Manaia was 
deceived, and said, behold this is the work of my god, heat 
the oven quickly with the stones of Tuaikorora, was it you 
my enemy who said that I should be cooked with the stones 
of Maikukutea ? yes, indeed you shall be cooked immedi- 
ately. 
Whilst this was being done, Nga toro was busily engaged 
in repeating all his spells on the tuahu ; they continued 
digging the oven to fulfil the curse upon him, then suddenly 
Nga toro i rangi stood up, and cried out to his company, 
arise ! let the slaughter commence; all immediately jumped 
up to slay; the one hundred and forty men fell upon the 
multitudes of Manaia, he fled, was not secured, but his tribe 
was destroyed, two thousand men were slain by the hundred 
and forty ; the pa of Tawiti noa fell ; the name of that battle 
is Ihumoto motokia, or bloody-nose battle, the killing being 
finished, Nga toro i rangi and his warriors embarked and 
returned to their home at Maketu. 
After this Manaia went and raised a taua to slay Nga 
toro i rangi ; he collected his thousands — an immense army 
— and soon arrived at Maketu with a very great fleet filled 
with the people of Hawaiki ; they reached Motiti. Nga 
toro i rangi and his wife were alone in their house when 
they arrived, his sister's child saw them, she ran and told 
her relatives, 0 Nga toro i rangi, go out and look at the 
sea, he went, and lo, the sea was entirely covered with the 
canoes of his enemy ; he cried out, to-morrow let us fight, 
it is too late to-day, let down your anchors outside, let down 
your anchors outside, push off from the shore, outside of 
Taia, and anchor there for the night, we will then fight as 
