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bent a rock in the bed of the river, to which he tied his 
cable ; truly that is the bent stone ; he arrived at Tanpo ; 
then he went on board a canoe, paddled to the Waikato 
river and reached the fall, there he met with his death, and so 
ended his travels. His children were Mahine rangi, Raukawa 
Wakarere ; Turanga was the husband of Mahine rangi ; 
Tarnatea had two wives, Iwirau the mother of Kahungunu 
Matangirau ; the second wife was Mahakiroa ; her sons were 
Koau, Tamaekiroa, Kahunui, and Apa the father of the Nga 
ti apa tribe. This is all I know of one of our ancestors, 
who was named Tamatea Pokai Whenua, Tarnatea who en- 
circled the land, the great traveller. 
Tanguru the Chief of the Panari ki Rotoatara. 
Tanguru was a very great chief of the Nga ti Kahungunu, 
he was an ancestor of Aperahama. There was a quarrel 
between the men of Rotoatara and of the Panari with the 
Nga ti Kahungunu ; the cause of the quarrel was land, to 
which they all had an equal claim ; they fought at Rotoa- 
tara, the pa was taken, Tanguru its chief sought to escape 
upon a moki, a raft made of bullrushes, but he was so loaded 
with beautiful parawai and topuni, that the moki upset and 
he sank, the Nga ti Kahungunu saw him sink, and raked 
the bottom of the lake with a marau, eel fork, which caught 
hold of his garments, he was pulled up and placed in the 
canoe, the body was cut up and eaten ; from this circum- 
stance his tribe acquired the name of “ Nga ti Marau.” 
The Arrival of the Kttia Ruahine, a great Female 
Ancestor of the Wanganui Tribes. 
The coming of Ruahine from afar, from Hawaiki, was as 
follows : behold she arrived at the doorway of the house of 
Ruamaunu, immediately they began to say to her, there, 
see what a smell of smoke the old creature brings with her ; 
disgusted with such a reception, she at once left Ruamaunu 
and dwelt at Otumatua, where she gave birth to Tainui, the 
