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leader, old Aperahama Hutoitoi, said that he had been there once before, 
on which occasion he had noticed flax tied in a bundle floating by, and 
from this fact he surmised that Maoris were living up the Arthur River. 
The party went up the river and discovered Lake Ada, which they called 
Te Moana. They also discovered in the mud prints of naked feet, and 
in the bush ashes of fires, and under overhanging rocks deserted sleeping- 
places. That is the last trace repotted of the vanished tribe. 
An aged Murihiku Maori said, “ I know of three times that wild natives 
have been seen. Firstly, when Te Waewae was with a party up the Waiau 
River, at Te Anau Lake, he and his people saw six men in a canoe. These 
were strange natives, and a woman in Te Waewae’s party hailed them. 
The strangers never answered, but went on paddling and were soon out of 
sight. Secondly, when Paina, Te Awha, and others were up at Te Anau 
they went out eeling one night and saw a light farther up the lake. They at 
first thought it was some of their companions, and when they found this 
was not so they put it down to diggers prospecting [this was in the “ sixties ”]• 
Next day they went up to look and found paraerae (flax sandals) and Jcohiku 
(sticks for holding game over a fire), but they still thought these things 
had been used by pakehas, until they saw the prints of bare feet in the sand 
and knew at once these marks had b§en made by the flat feet of natives 
and not by the arched instep of the white man. Thirdly, a whaling-ship 
of Captain HowelTs went into Bligh Sound. Before dropping anchor the 
crew saw fires on the beach and people flitting about. The next morning 
the ashes were there, also some weapons, but the natives were gone. 
“ I think those people were some of Te Raki’s hapu, but no one seems 
to know. When Te Puoho’s raiders came to Lake Hawea [1836] Te Raki 
and his people disappeared into the west. After the raid was over, Poko- 
hiwi, Haereroa, and others went up to look for Te Raki. They found the 
whare left in good order some time before, and tl^ey searched westward. 
They came on the ashes of camp-fires, and followed the traces right into 
the west until the country became so wild that they returned. Those are 
the people that I think were seen at Bligh Sound [1842] and Te Anau 
[1863], but I do not suppose any of them are living now. I have asked 
both pakehas and Maoris about those people who fled into the western 
forests, but have never been able to get any information. I would like 
to know, as I am related to those Hawea people.” 
A Colac Bay native narrated that the late Rawiri te Awha had been 
one of a party of Maoris living on the shores of Te Anau some eighty or 
ninety years ago. Under the custom of ohu the men were assembled assisting 
a man to make a garden at some distance from the whare (houses). In one 
of these whare a woman and some girls were making a mat, when in walked 
three strange men and began examining the dwelling. They looked at the 
greenstone hung up, but did not take it down, and they watched the manu¬ 
facture of the mat. A girl had slipped away, and told the men of the haika 
about the visitors, and on the approach of the former the latter hurried 
away. Te Waewae gave instant chase, but his prospect of overhauling 
the quarry was ruined through his inability to swim : the fugitives plunged 
straight through creeks and lagoons, while he had to look for places narrow 
enough to jump. Rawiri always laughed heartily in recounting the great 
state of excitement Te Waewae was in, and at the antics his eagerness led 
him into. The woman was too afraid to question the men, but they were 
said to be fugitive Kati-Mamoe, and the narrator was of the opinion that a 
few might possibly live in the wilds yet. In the sealing days the Maoris 
heard the sealers say a wild woman lived at Dusky, and a party, including 
Rimurapa, Hurou, and Whatui, went round there. It was Whatui who 
