the spoil. They made a pile of the dead men four high, laying them crossways as children cross and recross their hands in play, and then, as soon as the heap was completed, Te Whata-horo said to Te Ahuru, "Here is your utu. Is it enough?" Then the Ngati-Kahu-ngunu leaders gave the whole heap to Ngati-Apa. While the feast was going on, Tui, the tohunga, got up and sang another song, in which he described other places that would be taken, and told the names of the chiefs to be killed. So the party, taking his advice, advanced, bent on mischief. They attacked the pa Ota-aue (on the Awa-rua creek, about a mile below Putiki at Whanga-nui), where they captured the inhabitants, and sent them as slaves, under escort, to Rangi-tikei. They also took the Kai-matira pa, now known as Sparrow Cliff, and then travelled on to besiege the strong pa at Pari-kino, named Tuke-a-Maui, which was known to be full of people. It took the war-party several days to effect an entrance, but eventually breeches were made in the palisading by tying flax ropes to the middle of short pieces of wood, throwing them over, and then pulling them down. After this victory the taua retired, carrying with them many slaves, and satisfied that at least one of the taniwha's heads had been considerably damaged. (The old pa, Tuke-a-Maui, stood on the ridge below Kai-tangata, the old name of the pa now called Pari-kino. Pari-kino was a pa on