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Now about this time Tūhuruhuru, the son of Rupe's sister, grew up to man's estate, and he married Apakura, and she gave birth to a son whom they named Tūwhakararo, and afterwards to a daughter named Mairatea; she had then several other children; then she gave birth to Whakataupōtiki; afterwards her last child was born, and its name was Reimatua.
When Mairatea grew up, she was married to the son of a chief named Poporokewa, the chief of the Āti Hāpai tribe, and she accompanied her husband to his home; but Tūwhakararo remained at his own village, and after a time he longed to see his sister, and thought he would go and pay her a visit; so he went, and arrived at a very large house belonging to the tribe of Poporokewa, the name of which was Uru-o-Manono; all the family and dependants of Poporokewa lived in that house, and Tūwhakararo remained there with them. It happened that a young sister of his brother-in-law, whose name was Maurea, took a great fancy to him, and showed that she liked him, although, at the very time, she was carrying on a courtship with another young man of the Āti Hāpai tribe.