Not far away stands a grove of trees alleged to have sprung from the Tainui's skids.

Certainly Sir James Hector, the first scientific authority in the Colony, finding that these trees grow spontaneously nowhere else in New Zealand, named them _Pomaderris Tainui_.

But though, for once, at any rate, science was not indisposed to smile on tradition and Maori faith triumphed, and the unbeliever was for a while confounded, it unhappily seems now quite certain that the congener of _Pomaderris Tainui_ is found only in Australia, one of the few lands nigh the Pacific which cannot have been Hawaiki.
It will be safe to say that the Maori colonists landed at different points and at widely different dates, and that later immigrants sometimes drove earlier comers inland or southward.

More often, probably, each small band sought out an empty territory for itself.

On this tribes and sub-tribes grew up, dwelling apart from each other.
Each district became the land of a clan, to be held by tomahawk and spear.