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ORIGINAL CANOES. 
10. Tokomaru. —(This canoe is also called Tongamaru .)— 
Rakeora was the chief; Nga ti rua nui, Nga ti tama, Nga 
ti mutunga, Nga ti awa. 
11. Motumotuahi. —Puatantahi was the chief; Nga Rauru, 
Nga ti rua nui were in it. 
12. Te Rangi ua mutu .—Tamatearokai was the chief; Nga 
ti rua nui. It came to Ranga tapu.* This canoe is also called 
Tairea. 
13. Waka ringa ring a. —Mawakeroa the chief; Nga ti rua 
nui. It came to Kaupoko nui, Nga te ko. 
Toto was the name of the person who made the first canoe ; 
Mata o rua, and also the Aotea, out of one tree, which split 
in two parts when it fell. (This was considered a remarkable 
circumstance, as formerly, having no iron tools, they had both 
to burn down the trees, and then hollow them with fire, and 
thus could only get one canoe out of one tree, however large 
it might be.) 
The tuwhenua or main land was united to Hawaiki before 
Kupe came; he cut it in two, and made the sea between. 
When he first came to this tuawhenua, he found a people 
there called Kahui toka. The names of their chiefs were 
Kehu, Rehu, and Monoa. They had no food but fern-root 
before Kupe found them. When they saw his canoe come, 
they were dreadfully alarmed. Turi, on his arrival, killed 
them. Taki tumu and Orouta are different names for the 
same canoe ; according to some, Tutaranaki was the maker of 
Auraro tuia and Tane a rangi: they were also formed of a 
split tree The former was Maui’s canoe. These two appear 
to be distinct ones; and the accounts of different parts of the 
island vary as to the names of some and the number. Alto¬ 
gether I have had seventeen names thus given, but not by the 
same person. 
When Kupe went back, he gave such a glowing account of 
the size, beauty, and productions of Aotea toa (for so he called 
* On their arrival at that place, they saw stones like English flints, and moa 
bones. It was there I discovered the largest quantity of the bones of the 
dinornis which I have seen. The flints, I have no doubt, were the stones 
which that bird used to swallow, being chiefly quartz pebbles. 
