In consequence, the pa fell, and most of the inmates were slain. Waitohi, the father of Tauehe, sought revenge, and to this Ngare-raumati consented, with the result that a war-party invaded Waimate and attacked Okuratope (visited by Marsden during his first inland journey) the pa of Te Hotete who, at that moment, happened to be away fighting at Hokianga. Huna, Tupare, Hari, Mihingarangi, Tawheta, Whakariki, Waitohi, Tauehe, Uinga, Muriwai The heads of these unfortunates were cut off and defiantly displayed to the inmates of their own pa, after which the war-party returned to Waimate taking the bodies with them to be eaten there.įamily Tree. In the morning two men named Tauehe and Muriwai were observed approaching and these two were caught and killed, Tauehe being killed by Moka. “A war-party of Ngapuhi, led by Te Hotete and his son Moka, invaded the Aupouri country at Muriwhenua (North cape district) and made camp at a place called Taipa. The account, as related to me by Kiritapu and Hamiora Maioha, is as follows: Again, both Maanu and Kaiteke, who figured largely in the warfare, were still alive and took part - 164 in the Waitangi treaty meetings in 1840. The warfare probably took place some time between 17, although it is quite likely that some of the events occurred later, for it will be noted that muskets were used toward the end. In explaining her lack of knowledge regarding the fate of Marion Du Fresne, Kiritapu pointed out Ngapuhi had not taken possession of that part of the bay at that time the attack on the French had been committed by the Ngare-raumati, from which we know that they were still in occupation of their ancestral lands in 1772. The country to the east, that is, from Tapeka and along the southern shore toward cape Brett was still in the hands of the Ngare-raumati, a people thought by Kiritapu to be of tangata-whenua stock, although she admitted that she knew very little about them except that they were descended from an ancestor named Huruhuru. In answer to several questions Kiritapu revealed that the original home of the Ngapuhi people was Hokianga, and that through the centuries they had gradually spread eastward until at the time of this history they had occupied the country as far as Paihia, Waitangi, and Kerikeri, as well as other places on the western shores of the bay of Islands. In common with most Maori accounts, their story of the warfare started abruptly and left much to be assumed in regard to the actual causes arid also as to what hostilities took place prior to the final invasion. DURING September, 1937, while visiting Moturoa island, bay of Islands, I had the good fortune to receive from my old friends Kiritapu and her son-in-law, Hamiora Maioha, some information relative to the occupation of the southern portion of that bay by Ngapuhi.

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