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And the man said to him, "Now O governor, just look round you, and listen to me, for there is something worth seeing here; that very spot you are sitting upon, is the place on which sat our great ancestress Hinemoa, when she swam over here from the main. But I'll tell you the whole story.
"Look you now, Rangiuru was the name of the mother of a chief called Tūtānekai; she was properly the wife of Whakauekaipapa (the great ancestor of the Ngāti Whakaue tribe); but she at one time ran away with a chief named Tūwharetoa (the great ancestor of the Te Heukeu and the Ngāti Tūwharetoa tribe); before this she had three sons by Whakaue, their names were Tawakeheimoa, Ngāraranui, and Tuteaiti. It was after the birth of this third son, that Rangiuru eloped with Tūwharetoa, who had come to Rotorua as a stranger on a visit. From this affair sprang Tūtānekai, who was an illegitimate child; but finally, Whakaue and Rangiuru were united again, and she had another son whose name was Kōpako; and then she had a daughter whom they named Tupa; she was the last child of Whakaue.