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"For most of my boyhood days I had lived at Waikato," said Maro, "but when I was a young man I came to Mount Eden to live, at a time when there was great stir and tumult over a young chief named Popo. In later years he became a great friend of mine, but as I had been living in the Waikato I did not know him at this time. It was after the days of which I speak that my mother told me about him. As she was related to his mother she knew him well, and this is the story she told me, which I will tell to you in her own words."