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Eehua, ' What are we to do ? ' And Behua replied, ' When you 

 see a gleaming redness in the sky, that is a call to you to go to 

 your ancestor, Wainui, and produce your young. When they 

 have grown they will return themselves.' There are three 

 migrations of the inanga, and then the young are born and 

 left with their ancestor, Wainui. These young are called 

 kaeaea. This is the song for those young : — 



Te kaeaea i tuku mai rara 

 I hara mai koe 



I te tai honuhonu o Merernere 

 Ki maturu tara (?) koia. 



So the young are left behind and the old return [to fresh 

 water] . People see them returning, and observe that they are 

 thin and light ; and the Maori people note the red sign in the 

 heavens, and the cry is heard, ' 0, friends ! the inanga are 

 migrating.' Then the nets and pots are set at the weirs and 

 great numbers are taken. Another great migration takes 

 place during the Kohl o Autahi-ma-Bchua (autumn), and 

 again many are taken. The third migration is when Takero 

 [a star] is seen, and the migration is known by that name. 

 The pahore, tuna, koputea, and porohe join in it. In the 

 months Matahi and Maruaroa the old fish return, but not yet 

 the young. Many are caught as they return." 



So much for Maori myth and observation. The natives 

 assert that when the Kohl o Autaln comes then all fresh- 

 water fish migrate to the sea. Autahi is a star, otherwise 

 known as Atutahi-ina-Behua. The expression Kohl o Autahi 

 means the cold of autumn settling down on land and water. 

 Wainui, mentioned above, is the origin and personification of 

 waters of the ocean, rivers, and lakes. 



The inanga produce their young in salt-water, and leave 

 them there to be dashed about by the waves. Then the hiwi 

 (their parent fish) return to fresh water, but the young ones 

 do not come up the rivers until the fourth month (of the 

 Maori year). 



There is some confusion in regard to the various names 

 allotted to these fish. Some assert that the inanga and 

 pahore are different fish, but they are probably the same 

 at different stages of growth. So far as I can make out, the 

 terms kaeaea (or ko-aea), and tuarenga, and porohe are applied 

 to the young fish.* They are termed inanga about De- 

 cember and marearea about February. The old thin fish 

 are styled karaha and pahore (nga pahore o Behua). These 

 latter are the old fish which have spawned, and it is said 

 that the skin comes off them, hence the term pahore. The 



* An old native tells me that the terms porohe, koeaea, and uruao 

 .are applied to the young of kokopu, inanga, and tipokopoko. 



