When the crew of the _Tainui_ canoe parted company with the crew of the _Arawa_ canoe on the voyage from Hawaiki, the former came across a whale. They captured the whale, and secured it by means of a rope to a _pohutukawa_ tree on the coast, hard by Whangaparaoa. Early on the morrow the _Arawa_ canoe came along, and sighted the whale. Tama te Kapua resolved to annex the monster mammal. He could only do that, however, with any show of justice, by establishing a preemptive right to it. He was equal to the occasion. He fixed another rope to the whale, but in so subtle and crafty a way as to leave no room for doubt that the monarch of the sea had been first captured by his own crew. On the following day a dispute arose between the two crews as to who had captured the whale first, but Tama te Kapua pointed triumphantly to the way his own rope was "bent on," whereat the Tainui braves struck their colours, and sheered off. The _Tainui_ canoe passed along the coast to the Tamaki River, where it was taken across the land to the Manukau, and thence by sea to Kawhia, where it was drawn up. The _Arawa_ crew landed at Maketu, where they ate the whale. The _Arawa_ canoe is represented by a somewhat rude design upon the wall, fully manned with crew and fuglemen in full war-costume, while the prow is plumed and carved like those of the present day. The sun and moon are depicted in the heavens, and right ahead is a bright star, representing the brilliant constellation which is said to have guided Tama te Kapua and his followers to the shores of Aotearoa. Two trees, presumably intended to represent _pohutukawas_, are ahead of the canoe, and to one of these a whale is attached by a rope.