606 Transactions. — Miscellaneous. 



e pakiri mai ana nga niho o tena kowhatu. Tarewa haere 

 tonu i vvaho, pae rawa atu ki uta, ko Kaikoura ; kei reira hoki 

 a Poutini Arahua, te wai i takoto ai te ika nei te pounamu. 



" Tetaki korero ano a Himiona te Aka. Ka haere nga 

 tangata mahi pounamu ki reira. Ka tae atu, ka noho etahi i 

 uta; ka haere te tangata mo te ruku, ka riro ano tetahi pito o 

 te taura i a ia, tetahi pito ki nga tangata i uta. Ka ruku, ka 

 tatu ki te onepipii, ka titiro ake whakarunga, e ! e tarewa iho 

 ana i runga ake i a ia ; katahi, ka herea taniwhatia, ka mau ; 

 ka mea, ka hutia, ka takoto ki uta ; ka amohia ki te kainga, 

 ka mahia, ka oti ; ka haere i te kaitaonga. Ka mutu te korero 

 mo te pounamu." 



" He Waiata tenei mo Poutini Arahua. — ' Ehara hoki au i 

 te tangata kite i a Poutini 1 Arahua* ra, ee, i te wai ra i takoto 

 ai koe e hanga. Taria koe e ahu mai, ii, kia mataotaoo, ka 

 hoki mai ai koe ki a hau.'t 



"B hoa, kai te miharo ahau ki te parau o te Maori — he 

 ika te kowhatu ! He aha ra i ngawari ai te maro nei? 



" Heoi ano. Ka nratu. 



" Na Ha. te Eangikaheke." 



Akt. LXIX. — Notes on Tombs of a Preiiistoric Bace of 

 Colombia, South America. 



By B. I. KlNGSLEY. 



[Read before the Nelson Philosophical Society, 18th June, 1894.] 



Plate LI. 



Some considerable time since, Mr. T. B. Huffam, at my 

 request, wrote to a near relative of his in Colombia, South 

 America, requesting him to forward some seeds of certain 

 plants I was anxious to obtain, and also any information or 

 curios relative to the ancient inhabitants of that continent. 

 Mr. B. B. White (the gentleman in question), writing from 

 Valencia, Department of Cauca, Bepublic of Colombia, on the 

 13th May last, gives some interesting details of the country, 

 and, in addition to enclosing seeds, gives a description of the 



* This is the third time in this memorandum that this name is so 

 spelled, " Arahua," but I think that Arahura is the proper term. 



f An ancient ditty of great depth and meaning, often used by chiefs 

 at their formal meetings at times of death or calamities ; heard so sung 

 by myself. 



