26*4 Mythology of the New Zealanders . 
when it arrived at Kawhia, the men in it, finding the sticks 
laid on the ground upon which to drag up the canoe, were 
fully persuaded that the whole party would settle there.* 
Tainui having arrived at Kawhia, and preferring that 
place to settle in, they dragged the canoe on shore, 
where it is now to he seen.—I need not say it is a stone. 
Shortly after their settlement at Kawhia, a woman 
came across the country from Arawa’s party to Kawhia, 
and Tainui married her. This, I believe, is the first we 
hear of intermarriages after their arrival in the land, 
which, no doubt, continued, and by this means the two 
tribes were brought into nearer connection with each 
other. I have, however, generally observed that natives 
prefer marrying into their own tribes, though from poli¬ 
tical and other motives they often contract marriages out 
of their tribes. 
It is not at all known, nor are the natives of the pre¬ 
sent generation able to guess, the number of genera¬ 
tions supposed to have been passed since the arrival of 
these four canoes in the land. It is, however, generally 
admitted, that the arrival of these canoes is of a recent 
date compared to that of the Mani family. 
Which of the men of these canoes formed the tribes to 
the northward I am not able at present to state; nor can 
this information be obtained but by travelling and in¬ 
quiring amongst those natives. The particulars, as to 
which person of such a canoe formed such a tribe, toge¬ 
ther with their quaint phrases, proverbs, and traditions, 
are only known to the individuals forming that tribe, and 
to a very few only of them. 
[To be continued.] 
* It is affirmed that Taramoeroa, a man who now resides at 
Waikato, is the descendant of liaka and Hairoa, and that this man 
has by far the best knowledge of their mythology of any in this 
part of the country. 
