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… Maori traditions of the Great Migration tell of the canoe Tainui being hauled across the Tamaki … great canoes to reach the Manukau. The anxiety of Hoturoa, Te-Manuka-O-Hoturoa, as he steered Tainui towards the … throughout, but were plentiful only at the northern end of Awhitu Peninsula and in the Waitakeres. Cabbage trees, nikau …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Robert Maunsell was born on 24 October 1810 at Dublin … and was the seventh son of the nine sons and two daughters of the second family of George Maunsell, a Collector of … of Waitangi and, in the course of this journey, he visited Awhitu, where he was unable to persuade Potatau Te …