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NAMES. 
to say, “ Ka pa tan i kai ahau i te umu o to tapanga.” If I 
had partaken of the feast given when you were named, then 
indeed I should have known you. 
A chief generally receives three names during his life : the 
first, immediately after birth, is given by his mother, and 
might be called a child’s name, such as Tangi kai , from the 
child crying for food ; Vodka, pig, from its greediness ; Mokai, 
pet ; Moe one, a little lively grub ; Mouri, heart’s blood ; *&c. 
The next was given at the tuatanga, or naming, being that of 
some ancestor, and was assumed as he grew up ; the last was 
taken at the death of his father, which might be called the 
family name ; when Pehi died, Pakoro his son took it ; and 
Te Hiko, the second son, assumed his father’s second name, 
Turoa. So also when Te Heuheu died, his younger brother, 
Iwikau, adopted his name. Frequently, however, names were 
acquired by something occurring to the individual ; the head 
chief of the Karawa obtained the name of Panakareao, from 
his being entangled amongst the supple jacks in the forest, 
whilst fleeing from the battle-field where his men were 
routed; in that state, he was captured by a woman, and 
honorably restored to liberty, with this name, which he ever 
afterwards bore ; Tumuwakairia , a principal chief of the 
Mani-a-poto, was taken prisoner, and threatened with being 
hung from the tumu , or knot of a tree, but being rescued by 
another chief from the fate intended him, he hence acquired 
his present name, which signifies, suspended from the knot 
of a tree. 
Te Wakaahu, a Wanganui chief, slew Tuwhare, a head 
chief of the Ngatiwhatua from Kaipara ; he was not killed 
at once, but lingered some time, the dying chief told his 
conqueror he was no warrior, but only a husbandman ; that 
he had not the hand of a man accustomed to fight, but on^r 
he ring a ring a mahi kai , a hand accustomed to work, or he 
would have killed him outright ; his conqueror ever after 
retained that as his name, and his son after him. The great 
Waikato chief Te Waharoa, obtained his name from his 
father being killed in the gateway of the pa he was attacking. 
Rau par aha, the edible leaf of the convolvolus, was a name 
