Fig. 3.—Outer earthwork of Operiki, eastern face. 
On the low hill above Koriniti Village are seen the remains of Nga 
Mokamokai, a redoubt built by our forces in the middle “ sixties,” and 
garrisoned for some time. Similar redoubts were erected at Parikino. 
Tawhiti-nui, and Pipiriki. The two former, and that at Koriniti, were erected 
after the fight at Pipiriki in 1865, and a small steamboat was employed to 
keep the garrisons in supplies. 
The old native name of the place now called Koriniti (Corinth) was 
Otukopiri. A number of these wretched Biblical names are met with along 
the river, as Raorikia, Atene, and Hiruharama (Laodicea, Athens, and 
Jerusalem). 
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struggle of the tortoise-bearers. But a raucous shriek broke the charm 
and banished seventeenth-century dreams as the smoke of the white man’s 
fire-canoe poured over the cliff-head, and she churned past the Toka i Matai 
to swing into her marks for the upper reach. 
The “ Tuatara of Kawakawa ” seems to denote the fighting-men of 
Operiki. Kawakawa is a place about 200 yards up-river from the pa, 
where two large boulders in the river were named Parui and Parae-rarauhe, 
after two enemies there slain. 
20—Science. 
