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date ten sleepers, and the whole front is carved and 
painted with most elaborate designs. The kauta, or 
cooking-houses, are proportionably large. In that part 
of the joa belonging especially to Heuheuy there is a 
row of cooking-houses 40 feet long by 15 broad, and 
10 feet high in the walls, which are constructed of 
enormous slabs, well fitted together. Round windows, 
with sliding shutters, admit the light and let out the 
smoke. The jt?ais500 yards long and 100 broad; and 
is used as a city of refuge by all the inhabitants of Tau- 
po and Roto Aera. Each division of the tribe has its 
own separatequarters. There was no one in the pa 
on the occasion of my visit, and the fences were ruinous 
in many places ; but they talked of renovating the 
fortification as soon as the harvest should be gathered 
in, to provide against apprehended invasion from TVai- 
hato. A beach of fine gravel lines the shore as far 
as the isthmus, where a stream, called TVai o Taka 
flows into the lake : this is about three miles from 
Tf^aitanui point. Another stream of considerable 
size flows down the middle of the isthmus of Motu a 
Apa, and find its way into the lake on its southern side, 
close to its junction with the peninsula. This stream 
is called Tf^ai Marino, or " calm water." On its N. 
bank is a considerable settlement. Both these streams 
rise from the western spurs of Kai Manawa. The 
only other principal settlements on the lake are at 
TVareroa, and at a place called Motutere, about half- 
way along the eastern shore. The whole force of 
TVaitanui, without allies, amounts to little more than 
400 fighting men. 
While at Tokanu, I could not but observe the excel- 
lent conduct of the natives. This was as much owing 
to their own friendly disposition as to the authority of 
their chief I was never annoyed, as I had often been 
