PDF《THE MAORI,》

s, and he killed every one of the Kawe-rau he could take, and continued his pursuit of them even up to the mouth of the Manuka, where he rushed or attacked a Pa which had been built on the branches of a growing kauri (damara australis) tree, which stood on the bank of the creek coming in from the Piha beach, the head of which runs towards to the head of the Ana-whata creek when he and his war party had taken this Pa, they went and attacked the Pa on the island which stands on the sea beach of the Piha (small kumara, or kumara collected after the main crop had been gathered into store houses) and the name of this Pa was Piha. When this was taken they went and attacked the Pa in the Karekare district, this was taken, and they went on and attacked the Pa situate on the Para-tutae on the north head at the mouth of the Manuka river. This was the last Pa they attacked at that time, and they went back to Kai-para (8) as they had obtained ample revenge for the murders committed on his people. He and his people did not stay long idle, but went on a war expedition on the other side of Kai-para to Te-wai-herunga (the water where the head was counted). When they had got to the place, Ka-wharu went out in the scrub to call to the chief of the Pa called Te-huhunu (double canoe). And Ka-wharu called to him, but he called by making a whistling sound by inserting his forefinger into his mouth, being doubled, he placed it on the end of his tongue and made the whistle which is called koro- whiti which whistle is often used in times of war by some in an attacking party, to convey an intimation of a war party, and that those to whom such warning is given, for them to hide or escape, Ka-wharu made a koro-whiti noise, and by it conveyed these words: Who am I? Who? Te-huhunu answered by saying: It is you, who so much is heard in the past. The people of the Pa knew that this was Ka-wharu, the warrior whose fame had been heard by all tribes. Soon after this, or on the following day Ka-wharu went to that Pa to see his sister who was the wife of one of the men of that Pa, thinking that the people of the Pa would not attempt to murder him. As soon as he had entered the Pa,........