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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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d about thehead—so much so that he became unconscious. His jaw was alsosmashed by a blow. After a time the man came to, and finding hisfoes still about, feigned death, until he got a chance to creep away intothe bush, from whence he made his way with great difficulty to hishome. Arrived there, and on beholding the pitiable state in which hewas in, he was asked, 7V« ivai hoe?^—(Who maltreated you?) ^^ Ku—u—hi—u—kai ro^, said he, not being able to speak distinctly on account of his fractured jaw. This incident was the laststraw. It was at once decided to send forth a party to obtain revenge.This taua, numbering about two thousand in all, struck into the bushabout the Tapuae or Poutoko, ^ and kept along inland so as to avoid 1. Tapuae, a small river wliich falls into the sea about seven miles south ofNew Plymouth. Poutoko, on the high ground above the valley of Tapuae, tovrardsNew Plymouth, the pa formerly occupied by Tamati Wiremu Te Ngahuru beforethe war. ^^ ^f€ Puketapu
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ezs.uoa.ios. HISTORY AND TRADITIONS OF THE TARANAKI COAST. 261 observance by the Ati-Awa in the Pahakahaka^ Fort, and stragglersfrom Pukeariki. ^ They seem to have turned down towards the beachnear Eatanui, ^ passing through the upper end of what is now calledBrooklands, on to the present line of the Avenue road, striking thebeach at Autere—Major Browns former residence at the mouth of theHenui River. They must have kept under cover near here for a day—they certainly would have been seen and the alarm given had theyventured on to the beach in the daylight. But it is clear the people ofPewarewa expected an attack, though not knowing the precise momentwhen it would occur. Pakei-roa, one of the chiefs of the pa, said,jE hore e tata mai i te aralnga 0 nga toha a Tarai.—( They will notcome near us owing to the obstruction of the rocks of Tarai—rocks ofTarai being used for the chiefs of the -pa.) The following is the mata^or ngeri^ used by Taranaki at the attack :— I a matiti, e k

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