Best. — Maori Marriage Ctistoyns. 57 



•will have control of them. When a couple separate through 

 the adultery of one of them the children are retained by the 

 non-adulterous parent. Still, in after-years the children will 

 probably be quite friendly with their erring parent. 



The expression to paepae is applied to a woman dis- 

 carded, repudiated, by her husband (and vice versa) on ac- 

 count of infidelity. It is a beUttling expression : she is only 

 fit to drag the beam of a latrine. The term karatuhaea 

 (scarifier) is a modern word for the same thing, the natives 

 having seen the scarifier cultivator at work on the coastal 

 farms. The discarded adulterer is only fit to do menial work, 

 to weed cultivation-grounds, &c. — said to be draggmg the 

 scarifier. 



The term tiko hika is applied to a vi^oman who has many 

 lovers, as also is the expression kaikai-rau. Adultery is 

 termed puremu, and also toukohl. He ivahine toukohi = an 

 adulterous woman. 



E whaeE ! He wahine toukohi koe. — Old Song. 



Williams's Dictionary gives this as tokohi. 



The word tvhaiaipo means a lover, sweetheart, and is here 

 applied to male and female lovers, whether single or married. 

 It is not applied by a wife to her husband, nor by the latter to 

 his wife. The terra kari hika implies frequent sexual inter- 

 course. The star Paretlrau is spoken of as a ivahine kari hika, 

 or ^cahine tiweka — i.e., a lady of indifferent character. 



We give a few specimens of such songs as were composed 

 •by natives in connection with adulterous women :— 



A Song, composed by Kahua, whose Wife had been tampered 



WITH. 



Kaore taku raru 



He rau tahuritauga ki te whare ra 



I whakawarea au e koe ki te tama iara 



Na Te Pu-Whakahara ou ngutu 



Te hohoro ki nga kokinga rau 



Tenei te kurehu nei, he moe po pea i au ra 



Ko te moe he mea tenei au kai runga 



Te torohanga tini whetu ki runga i te rangi 



He whakahinga noa koe i a Tane-mahuta 



Ki nga urn kiokio 



Ki nga paruparu ki OTu-whai-ao 



Rere pu o korua mauri tee tika i te ara 



Tapabi noa i te whenua 



Apiti rawa atu ki te takotoranga o Haumia 



Ki te aka o te whenua 



Totoro to waewae hai ringaringa 



Totoro to ringaringa hai waewae 



Ka takofco te ika whenua o te rangi 



Katahi ka auraki mai 



Ki te whanau a te mangumangu kikino 



Ki te aitanga a Punga i au — e. 



