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putting on the haumi, or stern part of the canoe, which is a 
separate piece, joined on to the end, they accidentally killed 
Mania’s son, whose name was Tutenana hau ; the builders of 
the canoes were therefore anxious to finish them as quick as 
possible, and get away before the child was missed. Being a 
chief child, he was in the habit of going about visiting his 
friends, and staying ten days at a time, they knew he would 
not be missed for some time. They therefore made haste, and 
paddled away from Hawaiki, having buried the child near the 
place where they adzed out their canoes.* 
The Arawa first sailed. The chief of it, Tama te Kapua, 
called to Nga toro i rangi, to come and eat their food at sea, 
or fupeke, that is, do away the tapu, by making it noa for 
them, that they might eat on the voyage, which they could not 
have done till the principal chief took off the tapu, so that 
they might prosper. They succeeded in persuading Nga toro 
i rangi to go on board, also his wife Kearoa, and so he went 
with them to Aotea roa. Nga toro i rangi did not live inside 
the canoe, being too sacred a person, but on the top, their 
canoes having houses built on them with wooden side poles, 
and were roofed with raupo. They landed at Wangaparau, 
and came on to Wake-tane, and Maketu, and there left the 
Arawa, where she has ever since remained, turned into stone. 
The Tainui went to Kawia; its chief was Hoturoa. The 
Aotea roa remained for a time at Hauraki, and thence sailed 
to Otahuhu in company with the Tainui and Tonga maru, 
where they hauled the canoe across the isthmus.f The Aotea 
roa remained at Aotea ; the Tainui at Kawia ; and the Tonga 
maru at Nga ti awa. 
Some time after they left Hawaiki, the young child Tute, 
nangahau Mania’s son, was missed, but they could not dis¬ 
cover what had become of him, until Tuparaunui, a large 
* Another account states, that this boy was not killed by accident, but 
designedly, by Hoturoa, for mocking his work as he was adzing out his canoe; 
and that he buried him on the spot, strewing the chips of his canoe over it to 
avoid detection. 
f From the Tamaki to Manukau there is a portage of not more than a 
quarter of a mile, called Ota huhu: by dragging their canoes across this, they 
passed from the Eastern Sea to the Western. 
