Plates LXIV, LXV.
Discovery and Settlement of the Rotorua District.

Ngatoroirangi, the tohunga and navigator of the “Arawa” canoe, was the first from that canoe to explore the Taupo district. Kahumata-momoe, the younger son of Tama-te-kapua, also journeyed to Taupo. On his return to Maketu he saw Lake Rotorua and named it Te Moana-nui-a-Kahu (the Great Lake of Kahu). The real settlers were Ika, one of the crew of the “Arawa,” and his son Maru-punga-nui, who came via Lake Rotoiti, and who lived at Okapua, where there is a pool named Te Korokoro o Maru-punga-nui. The following genealogy will help us to follow matters :—

Ihenga, the grandson of Tama-te-kapua, to whom is given the credit of the discovery, did not come to the lake until Maru-punga-nui and his son Tua-rotorua were firmly established there. Ihenga had been away with his father and grandfather at Moehau, Cape Colville, and came on to Maketu after the death of Tama-te-kapua. There he married Kakara, the daughter of his uncle Kahu. According to Grey's narrative, he went out hunting in the direction of Lake Rotoiti. His dog went farther on and reached the lake, where it had a meal of fresh-water fish. On its return to Maketu, fish were seen in its vomit, and hence Ihenga surmised an inland lake or sea. It is curious, if his father-in-law Kahu had seen the lake, that a dog should be the first to inform Ihenga of its existence. Another version states that Tama-te-kapua, without seeing it, named it after his son. However, Ihenga set off and came upon Lake Rotoiti at a beach called Paripari-te-tai, where he saw the footprints of his dog. He returned to Maketu, organized a party, and came on past Rotoiti to Lake Rotorua, where he built a pa at Whakarongo-patete. His pool for