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Title: History and traditions of the Maoris of the west coast, North Island of New Zealand prior to 1840
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Stephenson Percy, 1840-
Subjects: Maori (New Zealand people)
Publisher: New Plymouth, N.Z. Printed for the Society by T. Avery
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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even allowing for exaggeration ofdeeds in the story itself. Turanga-i-mua, accompanied by Kauika, one of the priests of the Aotea canoe, and their men, started from Patea, and proceeding tothe north overland, made their way as far as Tamaki, which was thenand for long after the general name of the Auckland Isthmus. Here,for reasons unrecorded, they fell foul of the people there living, whommy informants refer to as the people of Titahi, and defeated them withgreat slaughter in a battle called Te One-po-takataka. This, says oneof my informants, was the first occasion on which his tribe (Nga-Pauru) defeated the Titahi people, but not the last, as we shall see.From Tamaki the war-party travelled through the interior of the NorthIsland, and came out to the East coast at Ahu-riri (Hawkes Bay)where they again fell in with a numerous people, who are expresslysaid to have been tangata-ivhenua, when fighting again took place.The first battle fought was called Kare-po, in wliich Turanga-i-mua
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HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF THE TARANAKI COAST. 157 gained the victory. This was followed up by a series of sieges, duringwhich as many as ten pas are said to have been taken by the invaders,the last being at a place called Mimi-a-Rauru. These tangata-ivkenm, there is little doubt, were some of Te Tini-o-Awa, Whatu-mamoa, or Kangi-tane, who then occupied all the Hawkes Baycountry, and who were descendants of Toi and Te Awa-nui-a-rangi,often previously referred to. From Hawkes Bay, Turanga-i-mua made his way south throughthe other Taniaki district (Seventy-mile Bush) and then ascended theE,ua-hine ranges, by the old native path, which, starting near thepresent town of Woodville, passed to the north,of the Manawa-tugorge, coming out on to the plains of the West^coast, at the presentvillage of Ashurst. It was a terribly rough track as the writer ex-perienced in 1872. Near the summit crossed by the track, Tuianga-i-mua was set upon by the tangata-whenua, who were probably Rangi-tane, and af

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