One battle that Kāti Māmoe won against Ngāi Tahu was at Lowther under Tutemakohu, whose retreated to the mist after their victory. A Kāti Māmoe chief of Waiharakeke Pa named Te Whetuki was described as being "of strangely wild aspect", and covered in long hair. One tradition states that a group of Kāti Māmoe managed to escape an attack by forever disappearing into the forests on the other side of Lake Te Anau, the descendants of which were possibly sighted in the Hāwea / Bligh Sound by Captain Howell in 1843, and again in 1850/1 by Captain Stokes, and in 1872 by Kupa Haereroa at Lake Ada, and finally in 1882.