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Te Kanawa, a chief of Waikato, was the man who fell in with a troop of fairies upon the top of Pukemore, a high hill in the Waikato district.
This chief happened one day to go out to catch kiwi with his dogs, and when night came on he found himself right at the top of Pukemore. So his party made a fire to give them light, for it was very dark. They had chosen a tree to sleep under -- a very large tree, the only one fit for their purpose that they could find; in fact, it was a very convenient sleeping place, for the tree had immense roots, sticking up high above the ground: they slept between these roots, and made the fire beyond them.