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at the waterfall, he killed it, and put it into a taha, 
bark basket, and went back to Hawaiki, telling the chiefs, 
Tama te kapua, Nga toro i rangi, and Hotu roa, he had 
found the fine country Aotea roa, the large island ; they 
said to him, how shall we cross over to it ? he replied, 
build canoes ; the canoes were commenced, the first, 
Arawa ; the second, Tainui ; the third, Aotea roa ; the 
fourth, Taki-tumu ; the fifth, Kura-haupo ; the sixth, Ton- 
gamaru, when finished they all left Hawaiki together ; but 
whilst they were putting on the haumi, or stern of one of 
them, which is a separate piece, joined on to the end, they 
accidentally killed Mania's son, whose name was Tutenana- 
hauj the builders of the canoes were therefore anxious to 
complete them as quick as possible, and get away before the 
child was missed ; being a chief child, he was in the habit 
of going about visiting his friends, and staying away ten 
days at a time, they knew that he would not be missed for 
some time, and therefore made haste, and paddled away from 
Hawaiki, having buried the child near the place where they 
adzed out their canoes.* 
The Arawa first sailed ; its chief, Tama te Kapua, called 
Nga toro i rangi, to come and eat their food at sea, or 
tujpekej that is, taking away the tapu, by making it noa 
for them to eat on the voyage, which they could not have 
done till the principal chief removed its sanctity, that the 
voyage might be prosperous, they succeeded in persuading 
Nga toro i rangi to go on board, also his wife Kearoa, so he 
went with them to Aotea roa. Nga toro i rangi did not live 
inside the canoe, being too sacred a person, but on the top, 
the canoes having houses built on them with side poles, 
probably out-riggers, and roofed with raupo ; they landed 
at Wangaparau, thence went on to Waka-tane, and Maketu, 
there they left the Arawa, where she has ever since re- 
mained turned into stone. The Tainui proceeded to Kawia, 
* Another account states, that this boy was not killed by accident, but de- 
signedly, by Hoturoa, for mocking his work as he was adzing out his canoe ; 
and that he buried him on the spot, strewing the chips of his canoe over it to 
avoid detection. 
