Having conducted the retreat of his people with masterly ability, Te Raupa raha remained for a time at Te Kaweka, in the Ngatiawa country, where they were followed and attacked by a body of the Waikato, whom they succeeded in defeating. After this battle the Hehe lcai tangatci (man-eating migration) col lected their forces and marched south along the Coast, the canoes containing the children and other non-combatant*, holding a parallel course. This hehe was composed of the Ngatitoa and portions of the Ngatitama and Ngatiawa tribes. On their way south they fought the Ngatiruanui and Ngarauru people at Waitotara and other places, and coming on to Ohau, they built PaTe-Rauparaha on the banks of the Waikawa River, and commenced the work of slaughter, by which they eventually conquered, with the help of the Ngatiraukawa, all the country between the Whangaehu River and Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara. I It is with the Ngatiawa that we have

chiefly to deal, as it was the Ngatimu tunga and Ngatitama sub-tribes who drove the Ngati-Ira from this district and took possession of the Wellington lands. This party consisted of 200 topic ( i.c ., 400 men), and the principal chiefs were Wi Tako, Pomare, Te Poki and Te Patu Kawenga. Crossing the Pukerua Range by the old trail known as Taua-tapu, the tav.a came on to Wellington, and soon after commenc d to make war on the Ngati-Ira. On their way from Porirua to Port Nicho'son by the Pare-rau trail, Te Patu Kawenga laid claim to the upper portion of the Kenepuru Valley by ex claiming, “Ko tabu tcikapu tenet." Hence that place still retains the name of Takapu. Te Poki claimed the valley and delta of the Korokoro by saying, “ Ko te korokoro tenet o tabu tamaiti" (This place is the throat of my child). The Ngati- Ira at this time were living in the Ngutuihe pa on Puke-atua, at the Ohiti, at the mouth of the Waiwhetu, in a pa opposite Ward Island (Makaro) of which Te Ao Paoa was the chief, at Whiorau, Okiwi, and other places around the harbour. 