![]() Stones marking the length of the “Tainui” canoe at Kawhia. Some of these we shall often come across again. ![]() Ngati-Rora, Ngati-Uru-numia, Ngati-Rakei, Ngati-wai-korora, Ngati-wai, Ngati-pu, Ngati-Ihia. On the banks of the Mokau river and that neighbourhood, lived the hapus of Ngati-Mania-poto, named:. ![]() Included within the Waikato territories, as here defined, were the homes of the Ngati-Toa tribe, who lived at Kawhia and Marokopa until the year 1821, when they migrated to Otaki and Kapiti Islands in Cook's Straits, as will be related later on, their places being taken by Ngati-Apakura, Ngati-pou, and other sub-tribes of Waikato shortly afterwards. In very general terms it may be said that the Waikato tribes occupied all the coast from Manukau to the Marokopa river eight miles south of Kawhia, and Ngati-Mania-poto south of Marokopa to about Mohaka-tino river, two miles south of Mokau. So far as this narrative is concerned, we may, for the present, consider these Tainui tribes as having two great divisions, viz.: Waikato and Ngati-Mania-poto, with which are connected a large number of sub-tribes and hapus. I., II., and III., but his matter sadly wants editing and arranging on an historical basis. John White's “Ancient History of the Maoris,” Vols. Close to is Hawaiki, where Hoturoa's wife planted the first kumaras, brought over in the “Tainui.” Many details as to these tribes are to be found in Mr. It was the tuāhu or altar set up by Hoturoa the captain of the “Tainui” on her arrival, and is named in memory of the district in Tahiti from whence they came-now called Te Fana-i-Ahurei. 1 A very significant name is that of Ahurei, close to the spot where “Tainui” perished. ![]() Northwards of the true Taranaki Coast, or north of Mokau, the series of tribes that occupied those parts should find a mention here also, for we shall constantly come across their names in following out the history of the Taranaki tribes proper.įrom the Mokau river-which may be taken as the Northern boundary of the Taranaki tribes, as it is of the present Province-northwards to Manukau Harbour, a coast line of over one hundred and twenty miles, we find a number of tribes and hapus, who may be styled generally the Tainui tribes, because they are largely descended from - 2 the crew of the “Tainui” canoe that formed one of the fleet of 1350, and which canoe finally found a resting place in Kawhia Harbour, where, to this day may be seen two pillars of stone, named Puna and Hani, placed there by the Maoris to show the exact length of the vessel where she finally rotted away. ![]() It was at a little before that time that the most momentous events in the history of the Coast occurred, and the tribes known then to be in existence were the actors and sufferers in those troublous times. The amount of data we have for this purpose is considerable but it is too frequently of a very sketchy nature, and often the incidents cannot be placed in their proper sequence.īut before relating what has been preserved on the above subject, it will be convenient to place on record, so far as may be, an enumeration of the tribes and hapus occupying the Taranaki Coast, taking their names as we find them at the date of the arrival of Europeans in the country. It remains to gather up the various threads of story as they have been preserved by the tribes, and endeavour to weave them into something like a continuous history. IN preceding chapters, we have brought the history of the people we are dealing with down to their arrival, and settling down in New Zealand. ![]()
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