History and traditions of the Maoris of the west coast, North Island of New Zealand prior to 1840 . north bank of Waitara, when he arrived here with the fleet in1350. (See Chapter 11.) It seems also probable that the Tini-o-Awa people mentioned inJournal Polynesian Society, Vol. XIII., p. 156, as having been drivenfrom Heretaunga, Hawkes Bay, by the incoming Ngati-Kahu-ngunutribe, who fled to Tamaki (Dannevirke) afterwards to South Waira-rapa, and finally some of them to the Middle Island, are identical withthe branch referred to in the last paragraph as having separated offat Taupo, and gone
History and traditions of the Maoris of the west coast, North Island of New Zealand prior to 1840 . north bank of Waitara, when he arrived here with the fleet in1350. (See Chapter 11.) It seems also probable that the Tini-o-Awa people mentioned inJournal Polynesian Society, Vol. XIII., p. 156, as having been drivenfrom Heretaunga, Hawkes Bay, by the incoming Ngati-Kahu-ngunutribe, who fled to Tamaki (Dannevirke) afterwards to South Waira-rapa, and finally some of them to the Middle Island, are identical withthe branch referred to in the last paragraph as having separated offat Taupo, and gone to the neighbourhood of Port Nicholson. According to the traditions of the Ati-Awa, the first place theysettled down in on this coast was at (or near) Nga-puke-turua, thegroup of fortified hillocks just inland of Mahoe-tahi,^* and about the * Where the battle was fought between the Imperial and Colonial forces, andthe Ngati-Mania-poto tribe, 6th November, 1860. Plate No. 8 shows the two hills—Nga-puke-turua—from which the place takes its name, and also the modern vil-lage of the same c5fcJD o r-l H HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF THE TARANAKI COAST. 121 same time at Paketapu, the jy« on the coast seaward of the aboveplace, a very tapu spot, to be referred to later on. This first settle-ment no doubt refers to the arrival of the descendants of here the people spread iu all directions as time went on, andbecame eventually a powerful and warlike tribe. The ramifications of the descendants of Awa-nui spread furtherafield than those of any other ancestor of the Maori people, but thisAti-Awa branch was probably \ most numerous in the time of itsfull strength, , at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Whilst the East Coast Ngati-Awa call the West Coast branchKoro-Ati-Awa, the latter equally apply that term to the former is perhaps some justification for this name as applied to someat least of the Whakatane Ngati-Awa. I learnt from Tamahau, o
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