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thence he sailed to the Aupouri, North Cape, thence to 
Aotea, and there he left his canoe, which was turned into a 
rock, and is still to be seen ; he went inland, and named 
all the rivers ; Kawia, Marakopa, Mokau, Moakatino, Tanga- 
porutu, Mimi, Biui, Waitara, Wai o ngana, Wai Wakaio, 
Kau pokonui, Puni, Waingongoro, Tangahoe, Hinga hape, 
so called from his slipping there, a most appropriate name, 
the descent to this river being over a very slippery rock. 
Turi named all the rivers from Aotea to Patea, and Hou, 
those from that place to Wairarapa; at Patea he first built 
his house, and called it Matangirei, he planted the kumara, 
at a spot called Heke heke i papa, where he saw Kupe^s post, 
which stood on Eangi tawhi ; he took up some of the soil 
in his hand, and smelt it, calling it a rich soil, hence the 
saying for good ground, this is the earth that Turi smelt ; 
there his dog, Mata Ware was killed ; he said to Taneroa, his 
daughter, either your husband or children have stolen it, 
at this word Taneroa fled, and went to live at Papawero, 
where she had two children; she said to them, when you 
grow up, there will be food enough for you at Pawaira-ra, 
on the other side of the river, at the place of my brother, 
Turanga i mua. Turi and his son slew* the men of this 
island ; the name of that race was the Kohi-kohi. 
When Turi left his pa, with all his people, to fish or work 
in his cultivation, that his enemies might not be aware of their 
departure, in order to deceive them he placed a matuku, or 
bittern, in it, so that when any one came they might hear 
the cry of the bird — hu, hu, hu, and fancy he. was at home ; 
to strengthen the matuku in the defence of his pa, he uttered 
the following incantation : — 
Ko te Matuku i hea The bittern from whence, 
Te Matuku i Waiaua, The bittern of Wai aua, 
* That there were inhabitants of the land before the arrival of the Maori 
race appears highly probable, since they not only state as much in their tradi- 
tions, but also record their having gradually driven away a race far inferior to 
themselves, and compelled it finally to take refuge in the Chatham Isles. This 
despised people, by way of reproach, were called Kiri waka papa, which may 
be translated bare sides, from its ignorance of clothing. (See page 13.) 
