Turi found the Patea district occupied by a white race of people who were called "Korako" (albino) the males of whom he killed and took the women and girls as members of his tribe and as wives. Extract from White, p.138, 148
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A Lament, Ngāti Maru - Waitara, by Te Mamanga (Ngata & Jones, 1970, pp. 348-355).
Māu e kimi atu he tapuae rako,
Ko te tapuae o Monoa
I awhitia ai e te kāhui tara,
Ka rewa a Tara i Whenua-kura, e i.
Ko hea tō ara i haere ai koe?
Seek thou for the footprints of the rako,
Also the footprints of Monoa
Who was guarded by the tara flock,
Hence the name Tara at Whenua-kura, e i.
By what pathway hast thou gone?
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