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oil, on the water, that it might be clear, for it was dark 
and agitated ; now behold the body of the cuttle fish was 
distinctly seen, they immediately speared him and pierced his 
stomach, this was all, it was killed ; the body being left, it 
drifted on shore, and the spot obtained the name of Wheke- 
nni to this day. Pohea and Tamangakau reached Arapawa, 
this place belonged to Turere te ao, to which they came. 
Kahu pani, his sister, lived there, she enquired, was there 
not a name at Wanganui, Ture ao ? they said, no : she said, 
her brother was so called, being put off their guard, they 
said, there is only one name Turere te ao ; the woman 
wept, her tribe having enquired the reason, slew Pohea and 
Tamangakau, because they had slain her brother. She pre- 
tended her brother's name was different, to get them to say 
the true one, by which to find them out. Behold the stump 
from which the canoe was taken is still to be seen, formerly 
they could not see it, because it was sacred and guarded 
by the rainbow. 
Tradition of the Origin op Sand on the Taranaki 
Coast. 
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Formerly the Taranaki shores were entirely covered with huge 
boulcjers, as indeed is still the case with a great portion of 
them, which renders travelling along them very difficult and 
unpleasant. Once upon a time two strange canoes arrived on 
the coast, one contained the two daughters of a god, the other 
was filled with their slaves ; they were going to visit some other 
island when they were driven out of their course by the current. 
On their arrival at Taranaki they were very well received, 
and treated with the respect befitting their high rank ; at 
last they left, and on reaching their home, the god was so 
much pleased with the attention which had been paid to 
them, that he enquired what he could do to requite their 
kind hosts ; his daughters said the Taranaki country was 
a very good one, being extremely fertile and productive, 
so that they had abundance of food, and of the best kind, 
there was only one thing they could find fault with, and 
