She helped him back to their house, and brought home a long piece of timber for the fire, to keep him warm.
The name, meaning 'long piece of firewood', was chosen to fix in their son's mind the wrong that had been done to Tāwhaki, in order that one day Wahieroa might avenge him.
The others were lazy, and brought back little wood, but Tāwhaki returned with a long piece of timber on his shoulder.
Tāwhaki told his wife to call their child Wahieroa when it was born, to remind them of the incident.
The child was raised with care, and when he grew to adulthood he married Tonga-rau-tāwhiri[2] When she was pregnant, she had a craving to eat the flesh of a tūī bird, and asked Wahieroa to catch one.