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traditions of his country ; although unbaptized himself, yet 
most of the members of his family were, he therefore became 
attached to the Missionaries, and freely answered all their 
enquiries about his ancestors, a few years ago he said such a 
thing would not have been thought of ; and hence we see 
how unlikely it is that mere strangers, passing through the 
country, can acquire a knowledge of traditions held to be 
sacred, and which even amongst themselves are only per- 
fectly known to few. 
He repeated a list of twenty-six generations from their 
first coming to this island, namely : — 
1 . 
Tiki. 
14. Rapa rapa te uira. 
2. 
Maui. 
15. Nuku tawiti. 
8 . 
Po. 
16. Hae (a woman). 
4. 
Maweti, 
17. Moe rewa (lived to be very 
old.) 
5. 
Atua. 
18. Papa waka miha miha. 
6. 
Maea. 
19. Te turn. 
7. 
Waikapu. 
20. Heke rangi. 
8. 
Tukuora. 
21. Patua. 
9. 
Tutenga nahau. 
22. Awatai. 
10. 
Tau mumu hue. 
28. Koro awio. 
11. 
Taua na nga. 
24. Mapihi. 
12. 
Te niho o te rangi. 
25. Haruru. 
18- 
Mumu te awa. 
26. Moehau. 
The last is an old woman, a great priestess, who was then 
living at Knuckle Point ; Hahakai, in his first half-dozen 
names, seems to have gotten amongst the gods. If thirty 
years be allowed for a generation, and six are taken away, it 
will give a period of six hundred years. 
He stated that their ancestors originally came from three 
islands, HawaiJd, Mata te ra, and Wairota, all which lay to 
the East. The hills of those islands were covered with 
kumara, which grew spontaneously, a quarrel caused them 
to leave, but there was no fighting, being without weapons, 
and not a warlike race, they came in a fleet of canoes, and 
first landed at Wa/iapu, near the East Cape ; in the third 
generation Po came to his part, to Taimaro ; in a neigh- 
