 After three days of travel, Ruatapu found two large uninhabited islands sharing a lagoon, collectively naming the area Manuenua because of the large groups of tavake that were nesting there.He spent four days resting here, freeing the birds he was given, planting some of the tiaré maori roots and the coconut to grow a tree which he named "Te Tuia Rongo", or "Tuiorongo", and naming the planted tiaré maori roots "(Te) Aravaine".Next, traveling west-north-west, he arrived at a lagoon with a number of small islands and one large island, where he passed through a small reef passage named Kopuaonu and stayed on Oaka Island, at the shingle spit called "Te Okaokaanga-i-te niu-a Ruatapu".