TRADITION OF IOJPE AND TURI. 
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rutu, Mimi, Rini, Waitara, Wai o ligana, Wai Wakaio, Kau 
pokonui, Puni, Waingangoro, Tangaoe, Hinga ape, (so called 
from his slipping there, a most appropriate name, the descent 
to this river being over a very slippery rock.) Turi named all 
the rivers from Aotea to Patea; and Hou, all from that place 
to Wairarapa. At Patea he planted the kumara, at a spot 
called Heke heke i papa, where he saw Kupe’s post, which 
stood on Rangi tawhi. He took up some of the soil in his 
hand, and smelled it, calling it a rich soil, hence the saying for 
good ground, this is the earth that Turi smelled; there he 
killed his dog, Mata Ware. He said to Taneroa, his daughter, 
either the men or his children have stolen it. At this word 
Taneroa fled, and went to live at Papa wero, where she had 
two children. She said to them, when you grow up, there 
will be food enough for you at Rawaira-ra, (on the other side 
of the river,) at the place of her brother, Turanga i raua. 
Turi and his son slew* the men of this island. The name of 
that race was the Kohi-kohi. 
When Turi left his pa, to go to fish or to work in his 
cultivation, that his enemies might not be aware of his 
departure, and also that he might take all his people with him, 
and not be obliged to leave any behind, to guard the pa, he 
placed a matuku, or bittern, in it, so that when any one 
came they might hear the cry of the bird—hu, hu, hu, and 
fancy he was at home. And to strengthen the matuku in the 
defence of his pa, he uttered the following incantation:— 
Ko te Matuku i hea 
Te Matuku i Wai aua, 
He Matuku, a ha te Matuku, 
Matuku tau tiaki, tau aroaki, 
Tau aro aki. 
Te waka rongona manawa, 
The bittern from whence, 
The bittern of Wai aua, 
The bittern, what of the bittern ? 
The bittern, the guardian, the 
overlooker, 
The rustler of the wings, 
The imitator of the hum of men, 
* That there were inhabitants of the land before the arrival of the Maori 
race appears highly probable, since they not only state as much in their tradi¬ 
tions, but also record their having gradually driven away a race far inferior to 
themselves, and compelled it finally to take refuge in the Chatham Isles. 
This despised people, by way of reproach, were called Kiri waka papa, 
which we may translate bare sides, from its ignorance of clothing. 
