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After the Rangi-whakaputa and his merry men had conquered the various Ngati-Mamoe pas around the harbour, they…

Date of account: Published 1923
Source: Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand
Reference: Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand · selected passage 9
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-25

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After the Rangi-whakaputa and his merry men had conquered the various Ngati-Mamoe pas around the harbour, they found frequent diversion in hunting out stray members of the fugitive hapus and converting them to a useful purpose through the medium of the oven

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After the Rangi-whakaputa and his merry men had conquered the various Ngati-Mamoe _pas_ around the harbour, they found frequent diversion in hunting out stray members of the fugitive _hapus_ and converting them to a useful purpose through the medium of the oven. Often there were bush skirmishes, and although the Ngati-Mamoe frequently put up a good fight, they usually got the worst of the encounter. Mawete, the chief of Ngati-Mamoe, and a party of men from Manuka _pa_ were on their way across the range to Lyttelton Harbour to fish for sharks when they were ambuscaded in the bush just below Cooper’s Knobs by a band of Ngai-Tahu warriors. The Ngati-Mamoe chief and most of his followers were killed in the skirmish that followed, with the Maori weapons of wood and stone, the spear, the _taiaha_, and the sharp-edged _patu_, and their bodies went into the oven, for the Maori’s commissariat in that age was the flesh of his foeman.

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