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• Aboriginal people of N.Z. 16, 22
• Ahiweka's death near Te Kawau 257
• Amio-whenua at Whanganui 355
• Amio-whenua at Waitara 357
• Amio-whenua at Nga-Puke-turua 359
• Amio-whenua at Puke-rangi-ora 363
• Amio-whenua expedition 353
• Ancient highways 10
• Aotea, canoe, her voyage 87
• Aotea, canoe, passenger list 92
• Armoar, found up Whanganui 309
• Ara-nui-o-Toi, Te, at Rarotonga 61
• Ara-ta-whao, canoe 69
• Arawa canoe, burnt 160
• Arawi, Te, pa at Kawhia, abandoned 334
• Ati-Awa tribe 117, 119, 122
• Ati-Awa tribe settle at Nga-Puke-turua 120
• Ati-Awa tribe migrations to Whakatane 121
• Ati-Awa tribe migrations from the north 123
• Ati-Awa tribe wars commence with Taranaki 186
• Ati-Awa tribe conquered by Taranaki 209
• Ati-Awa tribe in exile 217
• Ati-Awa tribe and N. Rua-nui, fights 227
• Ati-Awa tribe some return to Taranaki 393
• Ati-Awa tribe occupy Port Nicholson 406
• Awa-i-taia, W. Te, his death 559
• Awa-morehurehu, goes to Tahiti 70
• Awa-nui-a-rangi, story of his birth 23
• Awarua, chief of Kaipara 296
• Awa-te-take pa taken 290
• Barrett and Love settle at Nga-Motu 444
• Barrett and Love and Oliver at Nga-Motu, note 526
• Canoes of the fleet 73
• Canoes various, visiting Taranaki Coast 74
• Canoes many started together for N.Z. 89
• Canoes called in at Rarotonga 90
• Canoe, tree for, re-erected by fairies 182
• Canoe, karakia used in felling tree for 183
• Canoe, named " Te Awatea," found at Motueka 438page ii
• Carrington, W., his marriage feast 104
• Christianity, introduction of 505
• Circumcision, surprise at 160
• Discovery of N.Z. originally, by birds' flight 57
• Dumont D'Urville's visit to Tasman Bay 432
• Early settlers at Mokau 461
• "Elizabeth" ship, used by Te Rau-paraha 441
• Epidemic, Te Rewharewha 268
• Te Ariki 310
• First settlement, Taranaki Coast 7, 120
• Fish talisman (mauri) 202
• Fishing grounds, deep sea 269
• Forest extended from Manukau to Wellington 9
• Forest margins on coast 1, 17
• Forests, great source of food 9
• Fowls, introduced by Turi? 88
• Genealogical Tables—No. I.—Ati-Awa, Kahui-ao to Mahau 23
• Genealogical Tables—No. II.—Taranaki. Po to Makuru 25
• Genealogical Tables—No. III.—Taranaki. Huki-nui to Rangi-whete 27
• Genealogical Tables—No. IV.—Ngati-Rua-nui. Tikaro to Rua-nui 30
• Genealogical Tables—No. V.Ngati-Rua-nui. Kahui-ao to Tamatea 31
• Genealogical Tables—No. VI.Ngati-Rua-nui. Tamau-awhitia to Rakei- Whane 36
• Genealogical Tables—No. VII.—Kupe. Hori Ropiha 50
• Genealogical Tables—No. VIII. to XIII—Kupe 51
• Genealogical Tables—No. XIV.—Tangiia and Whiro 52
• Genealogical Tables—No. XV.-XX.—Kupe and Whiro 53
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXI.—Rarotongan. Toi to Ruatapu 59
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXII.—Mangaian. Toi to D. Tangitoru 60
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXIII.—Urewera, Pou-ranga-hua 61
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXIV.-XXV.—Toi-te-hua-tahi 64, 66
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXVL—Tangiia to Uenuku 77
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXVII.—Motoro, etc 77
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXVIII.—Ngati-Rua-nui 97
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXIX.—Ngati-Rua-nui Rakeiora to Raumati 98
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXX.—Ngati-Rahiri 98
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXI.—Ati-Awa 98
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXII.—Taranaki. Te Mounga-roa, etc. 103
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXIII.—Taranaki. Te Hatauira, etc. 105
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXIII.a.—Ngati-Mutunga 114
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXIV.—Ati-Awa, down to Ihaia-Kirikumara 119
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXV.—Ati-Awa, Manu-korihi 122
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXVL—Ati-Awa, and Te Raraku 123
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXVII.—Ngati-Maru 126
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXVIII.—Ngati-Rua-nui. Toi to Turi 131
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXVIII.a.—Ngati-Hau, from Whatonga 151page iii
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXIX.—Ngati-Hau (Nga-Paerangi) 153
• Genealogical Tables—No. XXXIX.a.—Ati-Awa. Tama-ahua 158
• Genealogical Tables—No. XL.—Tama-ahua 165
• Genealogical Tables—No. XLI—-Taranaki. Potiki-roa, etc. 181
• Genealogical Tables—No. XLII.—Hoturoa to Ruapu-tahanga 188
• Genealogical Tables—No. XLIII.—Toa-rangatira, etc. 193
• Genealogical Tables—No. XLIV.—Ngati-Awa. Turanga-purehua 202
• Genealogical Tables—No. XLV.—Titahi of Tavanaki 204
• Genealogical Tables—No. XLVI.—Taranaki. Tu-whakairi-kawa 211
• Genealogical Tables—No. XLVII.—Ati-Awa. Koro-tiwha, etc. 225
• Genealogical Tables—No. XLVII.a.—Ati-Awa. Korehe, etc. 234
• Genealogical Tables—No. XLVIIL—Ati-Awa. Mere-Tahana 244
• Genealogical Tables—No. XLIX.—Ati-Awa. Te Puni, etc. 247
• Genealogical Tables—No. L.—Waikato. Tipi, etc. 248
• Genealogical Tables—No. LI.—Waikato. Ati-Awa 249
• Genealogical Tables—No. LII. Waikato. (Re Hinga-kăkă) 250
• Genealogical Tables—No. LIIL—Ngati-Maru 299
• Genealogical Tables—No. LIV.—Ati-Awa and Ngati-Toa, from Turi 315
• Genealogical Tables—No. LV.—Ati-Awa and Ngati-Toa, from Ngai-nui 316
• Genealogical Tables—No. LVL—Ngati-Tama (Te Puoho, etc.) 542
• Greenstone, known to aborigines and Morioris 28
• Haki-rere canoe 63, 142
• Hao-whenua battle 517
• "Harriett" wrecked (note) 461, 525
• "Heads," taken at Taranaki 272, 285
• Hikapu, Pelorus Sound, fall of 424
• Hikurangi, Mount, and the flood 84
• Hingakaka, defeat of Ati-Awa 248
• Horo-whenua Lake, massacres 390
• Hukurangi, an old name for North Island 171
• Jadeite, early knowledge of 111
• Jadeite, Potiki-roa's search for it 276
• Jadeite, Tama-ahua's search for it 165
• Kahui-maunga tribe 29, 36
• Kahukura, the voyager 64
• Kaiiwi, origin of name 141
• Kaiapohia pa, fall of 442, 483
• Kaiwhakauka, and death of Tu-whare 308
• Kapara-te-hau, Te Rau-paraha nearly captured 537
• Kapiti Island taken 392
• Karaka-tonga pa, Mount Egmont 186
• Karakia to allay storms 172, 174
• Karakia to bring the sands, storms, etc. 176 270
• Karawa's death 412
• Katikati-aka pa, description of 4
• Kawau, Te, pa,5
• Kawhia, early wars there 194page iv
• Kerikeringa, Te, siege of 298
• Kermadec Islands 101
• Kiki-whenua fights 414
• Kohanga-mouku pa falls to Ngati-Mutunga 196
• Koro-Ngati-Awa 201
• Kuititanga, Te, battle at Wai-kanae 552
• Kumara and taro, unknown 19, 61, 67
• Kumara talisman 203
• Kupe, the navigator 18, 33, 39, 56, 89
• Kupe, the first and second 56
• Kurahaupo canoe wrecked at Kermadecs 90
• Kurahaupo canoe migration 100, 210
• Kurahaupo canoe passengers. 103
• Kurukuru-mahe fight 187, 209
• Maokay, James, and drifted canoe 271
• Maero, people 33
• Major Lloyd's pa taken 242
• Mamari canoe 102
• Manahune people 95
• Manaia, of "Tokomaru" 94
• Manga-toa fight, Whanganui 355
• Manu-nui and Pou, story of 146
• Manutahi fight 228
• Marae named Opoa, Rai'atea Isle 85
• Marsland Hill inhabited 240, 247, 260, 482
• Maru, the god 220
• Maru, fights at 414, 467
• Massacre at Turangi 234
• Mata-atua canoe 66, 101, 121
• Maui-potiki and his descendants 36
• Mauri of the Kahawai 202
• Melanesians, not found in New Zealand 37
• Migration to South Island from Whanganui 137, 153, 427
• Migration to Whakatane from Taranaki 200
• Migration of Titahi 203
• Migration Ngati-Toa from Kawhia 340
• Migration Ngati-Toa from Urenui 384
• Migration Ati-Awa, called Niho-puta 399
• Migration Ngati-Rau-kawa first, 402; second, 462
• Migration Taranaki to Kapiti 418
• Migration Ati-Awa (Whirinui) to Kapiti 446
• Migration Ati-Awa (Tama-te-uaua) 487
• Migration Ati-Awa (Paukena) 497
• Migration Ati-Awa (Hauhauă) 497
• Migration Ati-Awa to Chatham Islands 551
• Mikotahi pa, siege of, at Sugar-loafs 497
• Milford Sound, and stone axes 29
• Moa, forest living 18, 19page v
• Mohi Tawhai at Tapui-nikau 291, 296
• Morioris, of Chatham Islands 22, 71, 99
• Motai's war with Ati-Awa 188
• Motu-nui, great battle at Ure-nui 366
• Motu-tawa pa at Mokau first siege, 277; second, 485
• Mount Egmont, first-ascent 26, 105, 188
• Mua-upoko tribe 154
• Muru-paenga's expedition to Taranaki 272, 284, 292
• Muskets first used 284, 286, 359
• Namu, Te, pa, siege of 501
• "Nana i. karihi te niho o Taranaki" 216, 268
• New Zealand discovered by birds' flight 57
• Nga-horo pa taken 242
• Ngahue, the navigator 57
• Ngai-Tahu tribe of Mokau 107
• Ngai-Tahu tribe of Mokau Poutini 428
• Ngai-tara-pounamu tribe 109
• Nga-Mahanga, origin of name 286
• Nga-Motu Islands, attack on 240
• Nga-ngutu-maioro pa, siege of 510
• Nga-Puhi attack Puke-whakamaru, Urenui 382
• Nga-Rauru tribe 141
• Ngarue, and the magic dart 162
• Nga-tai-pari-rua battle 279
• Ngati-Rua-nui and Nga-Rauru wars 209
• Ngati-Rua-nui tribe 141
• Ngatata goes to Waikato 413
• Ngati is modern 35
• Ngati (or Ati)-Awa tribe 117
• Ngati Apa tribe 153
• Ngati Ira tribe 154, 408
• Ngati Kahu-ngunu, massacred at Wai-kanae 458
• Ngati Maru tribe 124, 298
• Ngati Mutunga go to Kawhia 193
• Ngati Mutunga tribe 114
• Ngati Rahiri go to Kawhia, 1816 281
• Ngati Tama tribe 111, 252
• Ngati Tu-mata-kokiri, history of 427
• Nga-weka, defeat of Nga-Puhi 313
• Niho-mango, curse 426
• Niho's West Coast (South Island) raid 436
• Niniko, Te, story of 129
• Northern expeditions to Taranaki, early 271
• Oakura, early settled 158
• Ohangai pa506
• Ohariu, massacre 536
• Okoki pa 117, 367page vi
• Omaha pa 5
• Omaru pa taken 221
• Omihi fights 438
• Opoa, marae at Rai'atea 85
• Oracle, consulting the 221
• Orangi-tua-peka pa, siege of 510
• O-Raumoa, battles 539
• Otaka pa, Sugar-loaves, defence of 470
• Pahau killed by Ati-Awa 200
• Pahitonoa, the canoe 63, 142
• Paikea, the ancestor, his swim 83
• Pakakutu battle, at Otaki 515
• Pakirikiri battle, town of New Plymouth 265
• Papa-i-tonga Lake, massacre of Ngati-Toa 387
• Para-rewa, battle of 347
• Pari-hamore pa besieged 243
• Paritutu pa7, 240, 247, 260, 482
• Paro-o-tuwhera, Te, massacre at Turangi 234
• Pas, first built by earliest inhabitants 22, 122
• Patangata pa5
• Patuha 2
• Patuone, Nga-Puhi chief 296, 310
• Paumatua settles in Hawaii 85
• Peace-making, Pito-one, Port Nicholson 458
• Pehi-katia pa, taken 454
• Pehi Kupe goes to England 404, 426
• Pehi Kupe his death 438
• Pehi-tahanga's death at Te Kawau 256
• Pikopiko-i-whiti at Hawaiki 95
• Pomare and Tiwai 522
• Port Nicholson, Tu-whare and Te Rau-paraha there 304
• Port Nicholson, occupied by Ati-Awa 406
• Potaka, chief of Ati-Awa 238, 242
• Potikiroa's search after Tumuaki 167
• Pou and Manu-nui, story 146
• Poua-kai ranges 2, 7, 26
• Pounamu, known to aborigines and Morioris 28
• Pou-poto, killed at Manawa-pou 93
• Pou-roto, Te, is drowned 305
• Pou-tama Coast, description of 3
• Pou-tama rock 6, 113
• Pukaka, Marsland Hill, pa 8
• Puke-ariki pa, New Plymouth 483
• Puke-namu, fight at Whanganui 492
• Puke-rangi-ora siege (Raihe-poaka) 363; second 459
• Puke-rua pa taken 303
• Puke-tapu pa and epidemic 268
• Puke-tapu pa loss of fishing fleet 269page vii
• Puoho, Te, chief of N- Tama 285, 294, 295, 442
• Puoho, Te, his West Coast raid 542
• Purua pa, Whanganui, taken 303
• Putiki pa at Whanganui taken 447
• Raekuia, of near Waverley 206, 208
• Ralph, Mr. of Mokau 460
• Rangi-hapainga's death 280
• Rangi-tane tribe 154
• Raparapa 257, 330; his deeds, 280
• Raraku, Te 122, 272, 297
• Rata, similar story about " Tai-nui" 182
• Ra-tu-tonu, bravery at Tapui-nikau 288
• Ra-tu-tonu, marries Topeora 289
• Rau-mahora, story of 245, 267
• Rau-mano, and migration to South Island 137
• Raumati burns " Arawa" canoe 160
• Rau-o-te-rangi's, Te, swim 535
• Rau-paraha, Te, gives a feast, 1817 281
• Rau-paraha, Te, escapes slaying by Huri-whenua 283
• Rau-paraha, Te, joins Tu-whare 283
• Rau-paraha, Te, at Tapui-nikau 289
• Rau-paraha, Te, and Tu-whare's expedition 295
• Rau-paraha, Te, and Tu-whare at Port Nicholson 304
• Rau-paraha, Te, his doings at Kawhia 314
• Rau-paraha, Te, at Taharoa fight 327
• Rau-paraha, Te, wife Marore killed 333
• Rau-paraha, Te, migrates from Kawhia 340
• Rau-paraha, Te, at Motu-nui battle 366
• Rau-paraha, Te, goes to Rotorua 381
• Rau-paraha, Te, at Papa-i-tonga massacre 387
• Rau-paraha, Te, at Horo-whenua 390
• Rau-paraha, Te, resides at Kapiti 392
• Rau-paraha, Te, defeated by Ngati-kahu-ngunu 393
• Rau-paraha, attacks Ngati-Apa 394
• Rau-paraha, Te, defeat at Wai-kanae 395
• Rau-paraha, Te, starts for South Island 423
• Rau-paraha, Te, starts for Omihi 438
• Rau-paraha, Te, captures Tama-i-hara-nui 441
• Rau-paraha, Te, takes Kai-apohia 442
• Rau-paraha, Te, at Pakakutu 516
• Rau-paraha, Te, at Kapara-te-hau 537
• Rau-paraha, Te, at. Te Kuititanga 557
• Rauru, lives in Samoa and Raratea 63, 143
• Rauru, invents carving 70
• Rewarewa pa captured 258
• Roads, old 10
• Ruaki, Te, pa, fall of 506
• Rua-maioro's defeat 402page viii
• Ruapu-tahanga's journey 189
• Ruatapu, of Rarotonga 80, 83
• Sands brought to Cape Egmont 170 176
• Ships, early, at Nga-Motu 444
• Ships, the first, at Kawhia 337
• South Island raids 421, 434
• Stephen's Island, originally part of North Island 137
• Stewart, Captain, and help given to Te Rau-paraha 441
• Stone axe, " Awhio-rangi" 149, 209
• Stone axe, found at Patea 134
• Stone axe, taken by Hotu-nui to the Thames 126
• Stone carved, at Cape Egmont 26, 32
• Stone foundation at Oakura 158
• Stone image of Kongo found at Puke-ariki 236
• Sugar-loaf Islands, attack on 240
• Sunday Island, migration to New Zealand at 100
• Taharoa, battles at, Kawhia 327
• Tahiti-nui o Te Tua 69
• Tai-kehu, ancestor 37
• " Tainui" canoe, story about 182
• Tai-porutu's death at Te Kawau 255
• Takirau-o-Whiti, of Titahi 205
• Tama-ahua returns to Hawaiki 158
• Tama-ahua search for jadeite 165
• Tama-ahua story of 29
• Tama-i-hara-nui's death 441
• Tane, the god 21
• Tane-roroa and the family quarrel at Patea 132, 208
• Tangata-whenua, people of New Zealand 16, 22, 35, 37
• Taniwha, Te, pa besieged 284
• Tapui-nikau pa288
• Taranaki Coast, meaning of 1
• Taranaki tribe, boundaries, origin, etc. 127
• Tarata, Te, at. Wairarapa, fall of 449
• Taringa-kuri, chief of Ngati-Tama 5
• Tarionge, Maori and Tahitian ancestor 139
• Taro, Rauru's voyage to fetch the 63, 142
• Tasman Bay conquered 434
• Tatara-i-maka pa285
• Tau-kawau's expedition 273
• Tawhi and Tu-te-porangi captured 437
• Tihi-manuka fight 281, 293
• Tihi-manuka pa 4
• Tini-o-Awa tribe 35
• Titahi people 157, 203
• Tiwai and Pomare (of Ati-Awa) 522
• Toa-rangatira and his doings at Kawhia 194page ix
• Toheriri killed at Horo-whenua 421
• Toka-kawau, defeat of Ngati-Tama 421
• "Tokomaru" canoe 34, 94, 99
• Toka-a-rauhotu stone 26, 32
• Topeora, poetess, marries Ra-tu-tonu, etc. 289, 330
• Tracks, old Maori 10
• Trees at bottom of sea 169
• Tribal boundaries 106
• Tuiti, Te, his saying 290
• Tukorehu insulted, 329; at Otaka, 479, 498; his death, 480
• Tuhuru, chief of Poutini-Ngai-Tahu 429, 436
• Tumuaki, and search for jadeite 165
• Tupe-o-Tu, chief of Ati-Awa 291
• Tu-poki's death 257, 348
• Turanga-i-mua goes to Tamaki 156, 203
• Turanga-purehu's migration 200
• Turanga-rere at Patea 138
• Turanga-te-haka fight 227
• Tu-rau-kawa, warrior and poet 228, 233, 517
• Tu-whaka-iri-kawa's conquest of Ati-Awa 209
• Turi, captain of Aotea 77, 84, 131, 143, 157
• Tu-whare and Te Rau-paraha's first and second expedition 283, 295
• Tu-whare and Te Rau-paraha's at Port Nicholson 304
• Uenuku of Rarotonga 77, 165
• Uira, Te, his death at Kawhia 321
• Uru-te-angina of Ngati-Rua-nui 209
• Voyages, extent of 57, 76, 85
• Waiana Cave, Mohaka-tino 254
• Waimanu pa, New Plymouth, taken 237
• Waimate pa, siege of 510
• Wai-kanae, massacre of Ngati-Kahu-ngunu 458
• Wai-kawau, near Kawhia, taken 332
• Wai-o-rua, Naval attack on Kapiti 396
• Waitara-nui-a-Ngarue 164
• Webster, W. D., Battle fought in his garden 265
• Whakarewa pa, Cape Egmont 245
• Whanganui, tribes 150
• Whanga-nui-a-Tara, origin of name (note) 8
• Whare-kura, ancient, at Waitara 24
• Whare-kura, traditions of 143
• Whare-papa at Wai-rarapa, taken 453
• Whare-pouri's adventure 456
• Whatonga, the ancestor 64, 71
• Whiro and Kupe 53, 54
• Whiti, killed at White Cliffs 253
• Winged, The, people 148

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