We now return to the Arawa canoe, we next meet the people of the canoe at Motiti, which they named after a place in Hawaiki, [because there was no firewood there].
Next Tia, to commemorate his name, called the place Takapu-o-tapui-ika-nui-a-tia, we now know it as Rangiuru.
Then Hei stood up and called out, “I name that place Takapu-o-wai-tahanui-a-Hei”, this is now known as Atawa.
Then stood up Tama-te-kapua, and pointing at the place now called the “Heads of Maketu”, he called out, “I name that place Te Kuraetanga-o-te-ihu-Tama-te-kapua.
Next Kahu called a place after his name, “Motiti-nui-a Kahu.
Ruaeo [Rua] who had already arrived at Maketi, started up.
He was the first to arrive there in his canoe, Pukeatea-wai-nui, for he had been left behind by the Arawa, and his wife, Whakaoti-rangi had been carried off by Tama-te-kapua,
After the Arawa had sailed he had sailed his own canoe for these Islands and landed at Maketu, and his canoe had reached land first.
Rua cast his lines into the sea, with the hooks attached to it, and they caught fast in one of the beams of the Arawa, and it was pulled ashore by him [while the crew were asleep].
The 140 men who had accompanied him stood on the beach of Maketu, with skids [rollers] already laid, and the Arawa was dragged upon the shore in the night and left there.
Rua seated himself under the side of the Arawa, and played upon his flute,
The music woke his wife, and she said, “Dear me, that’s Rua”, and when she looked, there he was sitting under the side of the canoe, and they passed the night together.
At last Rua said, “O mother of my children, go back now to your new husband, and presently I’ll play upon the flute and putorino, so that both you and Tama may hear.
Then do you say to Tama, “O la, I had a dream in the night that I heard Rua playing a tune on his flute”
That will make him so jealous that he will give you a blow, and then you can run away from him again, as if you were in a rage and hurt, and you can come to me.
Then Whakaoti-rangi returned and lay down by Tama, and she did everything as Rua had told her, and Tama began to beat her, [and she ran away from him].
Early in the morning, Rua performed incantations, by which he kept all the people in the canoe in a profound deep sleep, and whilst they still slept from his enchantments, the sun rose, and mounted high in the heavens,
In the forenoon, Rua gave the canoe a heavy blow with his club, they all started up, it was almost noon.
When they looked over the edge of their canoe, there were the 140 men of Rua, sitting under them, all beautifully dressed in feathers, as if they had been living on the Gannet Island, in the channel of Karewa, where the feathers are so abundant.
The crew all rushed on deck and saw Rua standing thus, in the middle of his 140 warriors.
Then Rua shouted out as he stood, “Come here, Tama-te-kapua, let us two fight the battle, you and I alone”.
“If you are stronger than I am, well and good, let it be so, if I am stronger than you are, I will dash you to the earth”.
Up sprang then the hero Tama, he held a carved two-handed sword, the handle of which was decked with red feathers.
Rua held a similar weapon.
Tama first struck a fierce blow at Rua who parried it, and it glanced harmlessly off.
Then Rua threw away his sword and seized both the arms of Tama, and he held his arms and his sword and dashed him to the earth.
Tama half rose and was again dashed down, once more he almost rose and was thrown again.
Still, Tama fiercely struggled to rise and renew the fight.
For the fourth time he almost rose up, then Rua, overcome with rage, took a heap on vermin [this he had prepared for the purpose, to cover Tama with insult and shame], and he rubbed them on Tama’s head and ears, and the adhered so fast that Tama tried in vain to get them out.
Then Rua said, “There, I’ve beaten you, now keep the woman, as my payment for the insults I’ve heaped on you, and for having been beaten by me”.
But Tama did not hear a word he said, he was almost driven mad with pain and itching, and could do nothing but stand scratching and rubbing his head.
Rua and his 140 departed to seek some other dwelling place for themselves, if they had turned against Tama and his people to fight against them, they would have slain them all.
These men were Giants, Tama was nine feet tall, Rua was eleven feet tall, there have been no men since that time so tall as these heroes.
Info From Sir George Grey
https://steemit.com/history/@len.george/the-spread-of-the-descendants-of-hoturoa
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