. Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race, as furnished by their priests and chiefs . na-ments, on the days when the priests exposed Tu-hou-rangis bones to their view. At the time that theisland Mokoia, in tlie lake of Roto-rua, was stormedand taken by the Nga-Pulii, they probably carriedthose bones ofi, for they have not since been seen. After the dispute between Tama-te-kapua andRua took place, Tama and his party dwelt atMaketu, and their descendants after a little timespread to other places. Ngatoro-i-rangi went, how-ever, about the country, and where he
. Polynesian mythology and ancient traditional history of the New Zealand race, as furnished by their priests and chiefs . na-ments, on the days when the priests exposed Tu-hou-rangis bones to their view. At the time that theisland Mokoia, in tlie lake of Roto-rua, was stormedand taken by the Nga-Pulii, they probably carriedthose bones ofi, for they have not since been seen. After the dispute between Tama-te-kapua andRua took place, Tama and his party dwelt atMaketu, and their descendants after a little timespread to other places. Ngatoro-i-rangi went, how-ever, about the country, and where he found dryvalleys, stamped on the earth, and brought forthsprings of water ; he also visited the mountains,and placed Patupaiarehe, or fairies, there, and thenreturned to Maketu and dwelt there. After this a dispute arose between Tama-te-kapua and Kahu-mata-momoe, and in consequenceof that disturbance, Tama and Ngatoro removedto Tauranga, and found Taikehu living there, andcollecting food for them (by fishing), and that placewas called by them Te Ranga-a-Taihehu ; * it hes• The fishing bank of Taikeliu. -K^/^ ^^ \i. CHIEF LYING IN STATE. THE VOYAGE TO NEW ZEALAND. 151 beyond Motu-lioa; then they departed from Tau-ranga, and stopped at Kati-kati, where they atefood. Tamas men devoured the food very fast,whilst he kept on only nibbling his, therefore theyapphed this circumstance as a name for the place,and called it Kati-kati-o-Tama-te-kapua, the nib-bling of Tama-te-kapua; then they halted at Whaka-hau, so called because they here ordered food to becooked, which they did not stop to eat, but wentright on with Ngatoro, and this circumstance gaveits name to the place; and they went on fromplace to place till they arrived at Whitianga, whichthey so called from their crossing the river there,and they continued going from one place to anothertill they came to Tangiaro, and stuck upa stone and left it there, and they dwelt in Moe-hau and Hau-raki. They occupied those places
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