502 Transact ioJis. — Miscellaneous. 



Here is another song, as furnished by Te Ngakau : — 



Waiata Korotangi. 



" Kaore taku raru, 

 I pongia au ki te hacre, 

 Te ata whakake, 

 Ko a te hua pea, 

 Parewhakaika. Ka koro 

 I te tinana, ko te 

 Numanga, ko te kanohi, 

 Te ahoaho nunui. 

 No Tokoahu kihai 

 Rawa i tirohia atanga 

 Tu noa, ho ake te reo 

 Kia puaki, e kore ra, 

 E matea nei roto 

 Kei te ake taku rangi 

 Te haumaruru ; 

 Na Koro i liomai, 

 Ka kite au i a Te Hiku ; 

 Mau hikuhiku ai, 

 Te napenga o te rco ; 

 He rau tahuritanga, 

 Kia horomia te liuwhare, 

 I kai-a-kawhi kau, 

 Ki te tauranga, 

 Ka tuku atu ai au, e, i." 



Translation by C. 0. Davis. 



" Trouble has now o'ertaken me, for I 

 Had wandered far, on thy account, perhaps, 



Parewhakaika. I do not see 



Thee now in person ; nor did I see thee 



Passing from my view, nor even was thy 



Countenance in sight. The great ancestral 



Line of Tokoahu has found no favour 



Standing here ; the voice was heard in loneliness. 



Ah ! I will not show my inmost yearnings. 



Lest I wear upon my aching brow 



The griefs and care I feel. 'Twas Koro's gift 



To vie ; and then Te Hiku I descried. 



But glances only of him in the distance : 



1 toss and turn a hundred times, and strive 

 In vain to moisten my parched palate. 



A passing glance was all 1 had of him 



As he embarked, and then I let him leave." 



One cannot clearly observe the connection of this song 

 with Korotangi, unless it be the lament of the original owner, 

 who gave it to the departing emigrants. " 'Twas Koro's gift 

 to me," he cries ; Koro being, possibly, a gi-eat chief in Ha- 

 waiki. And again, " A passing glance was all I had of him 

 as he embarked, and then I let him leave," would almost 

 point to our surmise. 



