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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

War between Tuhoe and K Ruapani at Waikaremoana

War between Tuhoe and [unclear: K] Ruapani at Waikaremoana.

Kokotangi-ao of Tuhoe was by Ngati-Ruapani at [unclear: Waikare] They cut the body up and [unclear: jeered] it among their women, and [unclear: the!] of the man who was jeered [unclear: at] of this evil thing and they [unclear: aro] came to Ruatahuna. And [unclear: they] of that evil deed to the men of [unclear: T] potiki and the men of Tuhoe [unclear: p] over what might be done. [unclear: T] Arohana of Tuhoe arose [unclear: and] "Let us lift on high our [unclear: weapo] this is an evil thing, a [unclear: jeering] dead. We will give them a [unclear: line] to jeer at." And all the [unclear: chif] Tuhoe assented. Their [unclear: name] Tuirina, Taitua, Koroki, [unclear: Tiplu] Hiko-o-te-rangi, Mokonui-[unclear: a] Te Wharekotua and [unclear: others.] arose and came against [unclear: Ngati] pani (a hapu of Ngati-[unclear: Kahung] who lived at the Pukehuia pa [unclear: a] [unclear: soa] of Waikare. So [unclear: these] fought on the shores of that [unclear: sea] the pa fell and many [unclear: were] Nrati-Kahungunu heard of [unclear: this] tle.. They gathered and came [unclear: to] kare, to Whakaari, a pa of [unclear: N] Ruapani. They were seen by [unclear: T] who gave battle to them and [unclear: de] them. The survivors fled to [unclear: P] huia pa across the lake They [unclear: s] by land as they could not find [unclear: b] canoes. They then set to [unclear: work] hewed out two canoes. The [unclear: na] one canoe was Roimata nui, [unclear: an] the other, Ruha-nui. Then the [unclear: w] chiefs said—"Let us attack [unclear: f] people at night that none may [unclear: sur] This was agreed to. In the [unclear: dar] of night the canoes of [unclear: Tuhoe] launched upon the sea of [unclear: Walts] in the darkness of night they [unclear: pe] to Pukehuia, to the refuge [unclear: of] Ngati-Ruapani and of [unclear: Kahug] As they paddled over the dark [unclear: w] Te Hiko o-te-rangi said, [unclear: "Behold] birds whose song will awaken [unclear: year] break of day!" Te Rangi-[unclear: pu] page 33 [unclear: tered] this saying, "It is I, I who was begotten for the dawning light.' [unclear: Those] warriors then attacked the pa, [unclear: the] pa of Pukehuia it fell. The Ngati-Ruapani wore again defeated. They fled in canoes to Te Ana-o-Tawa, cave in a high cliff and which can [unclear: aly] be approached by water Then Rangaika, the chief of the Ruapani, [unclear: ok] some water from the lake and [unclear: bank] of it. The meaning of that [unclear: was] a "miti aitua." They were again [unclear: ked] in the cave and fifty of Ngati-[unclear: Ruapani] were killed and their bodies [unclear: ung] into the lake. But Rangaika [unclear: aped.] Peace was then made and [unclear: hiting] ceased for a time.

Rangaika pondered over this mat-[unclear: er-] "How am I to avenge the death spy people? " V:.d Mokoa uttered sreverb :—"Me ai ki te hua o te [unclear: garenga;] me whakapakari ki te [unclear: m] o te kawariki." The ohiefs of [unclear: oe] were jubilant and aggressive. [unclear: The] Ngati Ruapani sent a token to [unclear: ati] Kahungunu to invite them to [unclear: m] in an attack on Ngais Tuhoe. [unclear: y] came, and the combined forces [unclear: ched] on Ruatahuna where they [unclear: e] defeated and driven hack. Thus [unclear: re] these people slain; on the field [unclear: att] e and in their own pas were Ngati-Ruapani and Ngati-Kahn-[unclear: u] destroyed by the descendants [unclear: Toi] and Potiki, Paewhiti and Tu [unclear: e] And the thought came to Kahu-[unclear: u] that their tribe was lost. So [unclear: e] was made and Tuhoe and the [unclear: rviors] of Ngati-Ruapaui dwelt in [unclear: Been] on the shores of the Sea of [unclear: kare.]

Then it occurred to Tuhoe that they [unclear: should] seek payment for the death of [unclear: angi] wai-tatao and Toroa who had [unclear: en] slain atNukutaurua by the hapus [unclear: own] as Rakaipaka and Ngati-[unclear: Tu.] Tuhoe went forth and attacked [unclear: a] kutaurua (near Te Mahia) and the [unclear: ree] pas of Raugiamoa, Pukenui and [unclear: kckaroro] fell to them. Two of the [unclear: hubunu] chiefs were killed, Te Ritoo-te-rangi and Tamaiti-i-pokia.* Then Hipara and Puhirua resolved to make peace. So they gave the thought to Ngati-kahuhunu, to all of them, and it was agreed to. And Hi para said he would give his daughter as a peace-binding, and Puhirua and the whole of Kahuhuau consented. And Nga raugi-mata-eo said: "Me tatau pounamu, kia kore aie pakaru, ake ake." And Kuhu tarewa was set up as a wahine and Tuhi-o-kahu as a tane, as an equivalent for the giving of Hine ki-runga, the daughter of Hipara, to Tuhoe as a peace-binding, and that war might end. And those wars did end, and peace has endured even unto these days, the days of the pakeha. Enough!

And here are the genealogies of the people whom we have mentioned:—Te Rangi-wai-tatao was a chief tailless of Tuhoe She had Tawh took Hiora and had Marututu, who hod Marumoko-who had To Ruingaroro, who had Maru-kiri-whero, who page 34 had Manuhiri, who had Pukahu, who had Paetini (or Paratene, about 50 years old in this year of the Whakapono, 1895.) And Te Hiko-o-te-rangi had Moko-nui-a-arrangi, who had Te Hiko, who had Ruihi, who had (her child.)

* Though Tuhoe here take the credit of this victory, it is probable that Ngati-Maninapoto assisted them. Either that or the two expeditions were distinct from each other. From another source comes the following:—

"A party of Nguti-Mauiapoto under the chief Tukorehu, a great tighter, came by way of Taupo to the land of Rongo-whakaata (Poverty Ray.) The Rongo-whakuata and Ngati-Kahuhunu collected and met them inland of Turanga where they gave battle. The people of the soil were defeated and fled. The elder brothers of TeKani-a-Takirau were killed, Taia-ao and Tamaiti-i-pokia. Tanma-i-tohatohaianarrowly escaped. He did so by jumping into a canoe and going down the river to the pa."

Tuhi-o-Kahu is a high hill overlooking Lake Waikaremoana. It was elected as a tane or husband by Tuhoe, and Ngati-Kahungunu gave Kuha-tarewa, another mountain, as a wife. By [unclear: the] union of these two mountains peace was cemented.