| Others ran to the cooking hangis, and with burning sticks from the ovens set fire to some of the thatched houses in the kainga. |
| He came down to the frightened passengers and told them to make use of any of the houses in his kainga and assured them they were among friends. |
| A kainga consists of relatives living in different households in the same village or in several villages. |
| The kainga encompass all blood relatives and can include people other than blood relations. |
| It comprehended two or three acres on the shoulder of a low range, and was once the site of a Maori kainga, or village. |
| The father was the principal chief of the kainga, and, as it turned out, cousin to Bent's rangatira Tito. |
