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of a very large* size, similar to those in use in some of 
the islands in the present day, which I think is very pro¬ 
bable. 
It is universally acknowledged that the present inha¬ 
bitants of New Zealand sprung from these men; and 
though every one cannot give a correct genealogy of his 
descent from them, yet many of the present gene¬ 
ration can state that such a person of such a canoe 
is the progenitor of such a person. Thus Rauparaha, 
who now lives in Cook’s Straits, near Entry Island, 
is the de scendant of Tainui, of the canoe Tainui. 
It is, I believe, generally admitted that Tainui was 
the first canoe that arrived, and that the East Cape was 
the first land it made. The second canoe that arrived 
was Arawa ; the descendants of the men of this canoe 
are said to be the natives of Tauranga. A third 
canoe was Matatua, and the fourth the Kuraawhaupo: 
the inmates of the three last settled on the eastern coast, 
but those of the former on the west. 
The following is a list of names of persons said to have 
arrived in Tainui, the first canoe that arrived :— 
Tainui. Kote Aopiki. 
Hotunui. Kote Aorere. 
Hoturoa. Ko Mauriowahoterangi: 
Kote Paripari. 
Ko Rungaiho. 
Ko Totarapapa. 
Hotumatapu, 
Ko Ngarue. 
Ko Motai. 
Ko Ue. 
Ko Rangikawehea. 
* About 13 years ago I was at Paihia, and Captain Duke came 
on shore, and stated that he had on his whaling voyage, this last 
time, fallen in with a very large canoe, very nearly as long as his 
ship, a long way from land. They found four individuals alive in 
it, but almost dead. They cut the canoe adrift, and landed the poor 
creatures on some of the windward islands. The canoe, he observed, 
must have cost a great deal of labour and time in making, for it was 
composed of a great many small pieces neatly sewed together. 
