Kupe, and I will greet the land-head at Aotearoa or be engulfed in the stomach of Hine-moana.”

How the gallant old voyager sailed his craft across the Southern Ocean, how he missed New Zealand and discovered the Chathams, how he ranged westward to this land, coasted the North Island, and settled at Whakatane, are matters of traditional history. Also how Whatonga, returning home after many adventures, found that Toi was absent in search of him, how he fitted and manned the famous vessel “Kura-hau-po,” sailed forth in search of Toi, and followed him down the long sea roads to Rarotonga, heard of his voyage to Aotearoa, and lifted the rolling water trail of Te Ririno all across the dark ocean to these shores. How he made his landfall at Tonga-porutu, coasted round the North Cape, and finally joined Toi at Whakatane, there these Vikings settled down, never more to look upon the palm-clad isles of the sunny north, never again to listen to the thunder of far-driven seas on the guardian reef.

These were the first folk from eastern Polynesia to settle in New Zealand among the Maruiwi aborigines, many of whom were living at Maketu, known then as Moharuru. It was inland of that place that Rua-kapanga, brother-in-law of Toi, met with his surprising adventure with a flock of five moa. Soon other immigrants came from the eastern Pacific, including Manaia, and the return of Nuku to the islands seems to have induced others to come and settle here. So the new-comers remained here, took aboriginal wives, and became the progenitors of the mixed Tini o Toi tribes found here by the immigrants of [ unclear: ] “Tainui,” “Aotea,” “Te Arawa,” “Takitumu, [ unclear: ] ” and other vessels, nearly two hundred years later.

Tradition relates that the Maruiwi women were attracted by the comparatively fair-skinned, good-looking, industrious Maori men Their progeny lived as Maori, and even now we plainly see the aboriginal element in natives, in hair, and features, and skin-colour. But all this made for trouble, and, as time went on, quarrels took place between the domineering Maori and half-breeds on one side and the aborigines on the other. Fighting and wars followed, ceaseless harrying of the aborigines until none remained save the Toi tribes, the mixed breed. Now, it is recorded that seven vessels manned by survivors sailed from Cook Strait in search of the Chatham Isles, discovered by Toi, of which they had heard. Those vessels, or at least some of them, reached the Chathams, where the refugees settled, twenty-seven generations ago, and where their descendants were found by Lieutenant Broughton on the 29th November, 1791.

Now, one of these vessels, under a chief named Te Kahu, sailed from the mouth of the Rangitikei River. Her crew were unable to rig a deep-sea vessel, hence they obtained the services of a Maori expert from Whanga-nui, one Aka-ioioa by name Both this man and his sister accompanied the party to the Chathams, and his name was preserved in tradition by the Moriori, or Mouriuri, folk of the Chathams, as shown in the writings of the late Mr. Shand. Hau-te-horo, fourth in descent from Aka-roroa, returned to New Zealand in after-years, and his descendants are at Whanga-nui And that is how the Maori came to know of the arrival of the refugees at the Chathams. This information was obtained from Hauauru and Takarangi, of Whanga-nui, in the year 1854. The description of the vessel of Te Kahu shows that it was a dugout single