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koro there ; the latter, after giving name to a pa, returned 
to Hawaiki, because she grieved for her children left behind. 
Mateu went on the mountain and cried, and whatever she 
touched was covered with blood from her wounded feet. Pua- 
tiki was also a son of Kupe, and Taiapua, another of his 
daughters, who killed herself at the red cliff Tamure. Some 
time afterwards Kupe came there and bewailed her death, 
cutting his forehead with obsidian for grief, the blood flowed 
upon the surrounding rocks which were dyed red, and have 
continued so ever since : those rocks are seen in sailing 
through Cook’s Straits, a little before entering the heads of 
Port Nicholson, and are very conspicuous by their color. 
After this there were two pas built at Patea ; Raumana 
was seated on a neck of land jutting out into the sea, Ran- 
gitane, the other pa, stood at a little distance ; a quarrel 
arose between the two places, and the former being the 
strongest, bid the people of the other depart; they asked 
them for canoes as they had none of their own, but they were 
refused ; then the people of Rangitane cut a trench across 
the neck of land which separated their place from that of 
Raumana, and made four large wedges of hard wood, which 
they karakiad over, and drove into the ground, the land 
split in two, and half with the pa of their enemies sank into 
the sea and all perished ; others say the land floated and 
became a moutere, island, and drifted to Rotoma, where it 
remained stationary, the marks of these wedges on the lofty 
cliff are still to be seen at Patea ; so saith my informant. 
Thence he again returned to Hawaiki ; hence the saying — 
Hoki Kupe, e kore ia e hokimai, 
Come back, Kupe, he cannot return. 
Several extraordinary works are attributed to him ; such 
as severing the two islands asunder, thus forming Cook's 
Straits, and also cutting off New Zealand from Hawaiki, 
with which it was said to have been previously united. (May 
there not be here preserved some remembrance of a grand 
Southern Continent having been submerged) . 
