The Legend of Toitehuatahi and Tamatekapua

Our ancestors formerly separated -- some of them were left in Hawaiki, and some came here in canoes. Tuamatua and Uenuku paddled in their canoes here to Aotea; again, at that time some of them were separated from each other, that is to say, Uenuku and Houmaitawhiti.

For in the time of Houmaitawhiti there had been a great war, and thence there were many battles fought in Hawaiki; but this war had commenced long before that time, in the days of Whakatauihu, of Tāwhaki, and of Tūhuruhuru, when they carried off Kae alive from his place as a payment for Tutunui; and the war continued until the time of the disputes that arose on account of the body of warriors of Manaia. Again after that came the troubles that arose from the act of desecration that was committed by the dog of Houmaitawhiti and of his sons in eating the matter that had sloughed from an ulcer of Uenuku's. Upon this occasion, when Toitehautahi and Uenuku saw the dog, named Pōtakatawhiti, do this, they killed it, and the sons of Houmaitawhiti missing the dog, went everywhere searching for it, and could not find it; they went from village to village, until at last they came to the village of Toitehautahi, and as they went they kept calling this dog.