TE RAUPARAHA AND RAN Gi IH AEATA . 
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When he grew up to manhood, he manifested such a trou- 
blesome and restless disposition, as to render himself an 
object of fear and dislike to his neighbours, and even to his 
own relatives ; this feeling was increased by his collecting 
around him a band of the most worthless characters, whose 
constant excesses became at last so intolerable, that his 
neighbours, the Nga r ti-maniapoto, aided by Te Waharoa, 
their ally, arose, and forcibly expelled him from their tribe. 
The first exploit attributed to Te Rauparaha, was his 
cutting off a Ngapuhi Chief, Waero, with one hundred and 
forty of his followers, on Motu Tawa, a small island in Roto 
Kakahi ; leaving his friends there, he made his way overland 
to Taupo and Rotoaira ; the people of Motuapuhi sought to 
kill him, but one of the Chiefs became his friend, and hid 
him in a food-store, until he could make his escape ; he 
reached the Wanganui, and thence returned to Kawhia, 
where he gained the aid of Tuwhare and his tribe, who 
thenceforth assumed the command until his death, when Rau- 
paraha succeeded him ; they attacked the Taranaki natives, 
and took their stronghold, Tapuanikau ; at Tihoi they erected 
a pa, and remained there some time ; on reaching the Wan- 
ganui, they encamped at the heads for nearly a month, making 
moki, or canoes of the raupo leaf at Kokohuia ; they then 
quickly crossed the river, and attacked the natives at Purua ; 
the pa was taken, and about forty men killed. Tuwhare and 
his party proceeded along the coast as far as Wairarapa, 
where they killed the Chief, Rore. 
In returning, Tuwhare noticed the wreck of a vessel, which 
made him think that Cook's Straits would eventually become 
a place of great resort for the Europeans ; he therefore advised 
Te Rauparaha that they should go back to Kawhia, and raise 
as large a force as possible, and then take permanent posses- 
sion of the Straits ; hitherto they had merely destroyed the 
pas, for the sake of plunder ; Rauparaha entered into the 
views of Tuwhare, they went to Kawhia, and having there 
assembled a great number, returned ; * on reaching Putiki 
* Andrew Green states that he was expelled from Kawhia in 1828, but this 
cannot be correct. 
