A WATERFALL AT PAPA ROA, ON TflE WANGANUI. 
CHAPTER XXII. 
TE RAUPARAHA AND RANGIHAEATA. 
Te Rauparaha, the Chief of the Nga ti raukawa, was born 
at Maungatautari, about 1770. His father, in one of the 
constant wars which formerly raged, was killed and eaten; he 
was then a child. His savage conqueror said, that if his infant 
son fell into his hands, he would make a fine relish for his 
rau parallel, which is a thick-leafed convolvolus, growing 
on the sand hills near the sea, and formerly used as food. 
Rauparaha, or convolvolus leaf, therefore, henceforth became 
his name. 
When he grew up to manhood, he manifested such a 
troublesome and restless disposition, as to render himself an 
object of fear and dislike to his neighbours, and even to his 
