totara

He went up the Tamar, and at Totara slew five hundred men, and baked and ate three hundred of them.

The framework was of the durable totara-wood, the lining of reeds, the outside of dried rushes.

It was a native canoe formed out of the hollow trunk of a totara-tree, and shaped at both ends.

The "totara" is a tree that reminds one of the English yew, but its narrow leaves are longer and of a yellower green.