68 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



A Song by Te Eere-ure concerning his Adulterous Wife. 

 Tenei au te ware nei 

 Tera koe te tu noa ra 

 Te ako noa ra i te rakau a Tutawake 

 I te hani kura, i te kawau ruku roa 

 I te kawau maro 

 He kura takahi puni tenei. 



A Song by Te Ahoaho for his Wife, who was an Adulteress.. 

 E muri koe awatea nei 

 He whakaputanga no te wairua 

 I ronco pea koe i te ki 

 Whakarerea te waka to kau 

 Ka pa hoki ra hai te waka whakairo 

 Kia mau ai, E hine ! 

 Whai atu koe ki a Tama-houtake — e 

 Ki te ure i puhia ki te kura, ki te awe 

 Ki te raukawa — e, 

 Ki te kanohi pokaia ki te whao 

 Ki te uhi maitai 



Na te tipua ako noa ake nei ki te mahi 

 Koua kitea te kinonga 

 I te po tata o te raumati 

 Kai tawhiti ra a Te Ahoaho 

 Hai hi mai i te ika nei 

 I te tuatini, i te nanua pounamu 

 Hai kai ma te wahine 

 Ki mai ki ahau — e 

 He aha ahau te tito ai ki to tara 

 Ko ana mokopuna naku ra 

 Kai pakupaku tete noa i waenga o te tara 

 Miminga a ringa mai na tohou ure ' 



He ure i puhia ki te kura 

 I whakataua ki te tama 

 Na Ruru-tangi akau-roa e tete noa mai ra 

 E whakapi mai ra i te one o Tatai arorangi 

 Tenei ka haramai 



Ka tipi rawa i tc momo o te tangata 

 I hikaia to tara ki te ahi koe 

 Nau, E Tapeka ! I tora i te wheuua 

 Ka rere te kora ki to rakau 

 E tuhi ana, e rapa ana 

 Kai te uiratanga mai, kai te koha 

 Kai te pou taka mai i runga i te rangi 

 I kai whiri ai koe ki te ure wai kore 

 Ki te ure tipua, ki te ure i a Tahurangi 

 Ka mau te hu ki to hengahenga 

 Ka taka i te mutunga. 



It sometimes happened that a man would be so vexed by 

 the infidelity of his wife that he would not only forsake her, 

 but also leave the district for ever and live with some other 

 tribe. When Kopura, wife of Tihori, a famous ancestor of 

 Nf^ati-Awa, went wronj^ with Whare-pukaea, her husband's 

 younger brother, Tihori left the district and migrated with 

 some of his people to the north, where they settled among the 

 Ngapuhi Tribe. Hongi Hika was a descendant of Tihori. As 

 Tihori was leaving in his canoe his wife came down to the 



