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of Mount Egmont, known by the name of Ngatiruanui, 
and have taken several pas from them. The Waikato 
natives have also carried on their wars at Taupo, at 
Wanganui, at Entry Island, at Rotorua, and at the East 
Cape. Thus the Waikato went on under the banners of 
Satan, until the banner of the Cross drew away the army 
from being soldiers of Satan to be the soldiers of the 
Captain of their Salvation, to be led on by Him to a 
more glorious warfare, the end of which is everlasting 
life! 
With regard to migrations, the only one of any im¬ 
portance of which I have heard is that of the Ngatiawa, 
now residing at Tauranga, and the Ngapuliis, now in¬ 
habiting the Ray of Islands. The inhabitants of Tau¬ 
ranga were formerly the residents of the Bay of Islands ; 
but the present occupiers of the soil inhabited places 
farther north. I cannot exactly state where the residence 
of the Ngapuhis was, but I believe somewhere between 
Mount Cormee and Wangaroa, on the east coast. When 
these two tribes migrated cannot with certainty be deter¬ 
mined, but, from what I can hear, I should think about 
60 or 70 years ago, or perhaps more than that. A 
series of battles must have taken place (with the parti¬ 
culars of which I am unacquainted) to have caused the 
migration of these two tribes; for the Ngatiawa (or the 
natives of Tauranga) were driven from their own soil by 
their enemies, and only left it because they were not able 
to stand their ground. I have heard of no other migra¬ 
tions of any importance, though there may have been 
many. 
I am sorry that Mrs. Hamlin’s illness has prevented 
me from getting such information as would have enabled 
me to give a satisfactory account of the average 
number of births and deaths. Perhaps the number of 
families I have here written down, with the number of 
