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TRADITION OF NGA HUI. 
Te korero te wakarongona a te Let your voice resemble, 
Wananga, waka tikaia, That the enemy may he deceived, 
Kia tika, Be quite correct; he perfectly 
Wakatonu hia kia tonn hau e correct, 
Kia tonu, Your imitation, 
Ko te Matuku i hea, The bittern from whence, [&c. 
Ko te Matuku iWaiugongoro, &c., The bittern from Waingongoro, 
This is repeated to each of these rivers, Tangahoe, Hinga- 
hapa Patea, Whenua-kura, Waitotara. When the Matuku 
heard this incantation of Turi, he was strengthened to hu, hu, 
hu, in the pa, and thus those who came, hearing his voice, 
thinking it was Turi, were afraid and fled away. 
A great love for Hawaiki, his country, then seized him. 
He committed suicide by running into the Patea, and drowning 
himself. This is all; —so concludes the native tradition. The 
sites of Turi’s house, Matangirei, and his kumara farm, at 
Patea, are still pointed out; and an old man living there 
said, that in his early days, the land marks, which were sculp¬ 
tured stones, sixty in number, still remained ; but when the 
Gospel came, they destroyed them all. Turi’s well is yet 
pointed out. 
Nga hui came from Hawaiki to see a quarrel between the 
Mata and the Pounamu, which had its origin in that island. 
He landed on the East Coast, at Wangaparau, and came to 
Tauranga, and from thence to the Wairere and Taupo. He 
then crossed over to Kapiti, Arapawa, and Arahura, near 
Wakatupa; when he reached that place, he obtained the 
Pounamu (green stone) in a lifeless state, and there he laid hold 
ot the Kaukau matu and Tukurangi; from thence he returned 
to the Arawa Mountains, and there was the moa, at the water¬ 
fall, and there he killed one, and carried it in a taha (bark 
basket), and went back to Hawaiki, and told the chiefs of 
Hawaiki, Tamate Kapua, Nga Toro i rangi, and Hotu roa, 
yonder is the fine country named Aotea roa, the large country. 
These persons said to him, How shall we cross over to it ? he 
replied, Let us build canoes. The canoes were commenced, 
the first, Arawa ; the second, Tainui; the third, Aotearoa ; the 
fourth, Taki-tumu ; the fifth, Kura-haupo ; the sixth, Tonga- 
maru. They all left Hawaiki together; when they were 
