this warning was contained in a proverb still used by his tribe: ‘Though you are on the shore you are in the sea. He is taking you across the river.’

That night Manaia's daughter climbed onto the bridge and his work was spoilt. So he went and killed his daughter and threw her into the water. Manaia's daughter still lies there. When the tide recedes the hair will part and spread outwards and a stone will be seen.

This stone is she, metamorphosed by Manaia. When the tide goes in, her hair flows landwards. When it goes out, the hair flows in towards the river of Whangarei.

During Manaia's stay there he went to fish. While he was fishing it was a long time before he caught a fish. He caught the fish by its anus.⁶ And Manaia said that there was trouble at home since he had caught the fish in that way. He fished again, and again he caught a fish by that part. Now Manaia had many important things to do, but when this bad omen was repeated he decided to return from his fishing. As he drew towards the shore he called out to his wife to swim to him. His wife lifted up her clothes and examined the water and said to Manaia that it was too deep and that she could not swim out to him. Again Manaia called, ‘Swim to me. Swim to me.’ So she swam out. Now when she lifted up her clothes to swim out Manaia looked at the front of her body and he knew that his wife had been used by his servant. Because of this, when he and his wife reached the shore, trouble arose. So Manaia began to pray, for he desired to come back to Mimiwhangata. Manaia's quarrel was with his servant Paeko. Then Paeko fell down and prayed and straight away Manaia, his children, and his wife, and Paeko⁷, became stone, Today they still stand at Manaia Puke outside Whangarei.

Before all this trouble, while Manaia stayed at Mimiwhangata a great battle took place; it was Ngapuhi's wager against him. The cause of this battle was the murder of Te Waero by Ngati-Manaia. This man Te Waero was from Ngapuhi. He married the descendants of Manaia. The big battle was fought at Mimiwhangata, and the majority of Ngati-Manaia was killed. Those who survived, fled here and there; to Whangarei Heads, to Omaha, to Pakiri, and even to the vicinity of Auckland. Some of these people went to Great Barrier Island.

There are many more accounts of this history which tells of the unification of the descendants of Manaia and those of Rahiri. It was through intermarriage that the whole of Ngapuhi and Ngatiwai also was brought together.