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they were daughters of Mangamanga-i-Atua, and their names 

 were Harataunga and Horotata. Now, when these two women 

 saw the young stranger commg along m their husband's com- 

 pany, as if she was his wife, they could not endure it, and they 

 abused Hinauii on account of her conduct with their husband ; 

 at last they proceeded so far as to attempt to strike her and to 

 kill her, and they cursed her bitterly. When they treated her 

 in this manner the heart of Hinauri became gloomy with grief 

 and mortificatiou, so she began to utter incantations against 

 them, and repeated one so powerful that hardly had she finished 

 it when the two women fell flat on the ground, with the soles of 

 their feet projecting upwards, and lay quite dead upon the earth, 

 and her husband was thus left free for her alone. All this time 

 Hinauri was lost to her friends and home, and her younger 

 brother, Mauimua, afterwards called Piupe, could do nothing but 

 think of her ; and excessive love for his sister, and sorrow at 

 her departure so harassed him, that he said he could no longer 

 remain at rest but that he must go and seek his sister. 



"So he departed upon this undertaking, and visited every 

 place he could think of without missing one of them, yet he 

 could nowhere find his sister; at last Eupe thought he would 

 ascend to the heavens to consult his great ancestor Kehua, who 

 dwelt there at a place called Te Putahi-uui-o-Eehua, and in 

 fulfilment of this design he began his ascent to the heavenly 

 regions. Eupe continued his ascent, seeking everywhere hastily 

 for Eehua ; at last he reached a place where people were dwell- 

 ing, and, when he saw them, he spoke to them, saying ' Are the 

 heavens above this inhabited ?' and the people dwelling there 

 answered him, ' They are inhabited.' And he asked them, 

 ' Can I reach those heavens ?' and they replied, ' You cannot 

 reach them ; the heavens above these are those the boundaries of 

 which were fixed by Tane.' But Eupe forced a way up through 

 those heavens, and got above them, and found an inhabited 

 place ; and he asked the inhabitants of it, saying, " Are the 

 heavens above these inhabited ?' and the people answered him, 

 * They are inhabited.' And he again asked, ' Do you think I 

 can reach them ?' and they replied, ' No, you will not be able 

 to reach them ; those heavens were fixed there by Tane.' Eupe, 

 however, forced a way through those heavens too ; and this he 

 continued to do until he reached the tenth heaven, and there 

 he found the abode of Eehua. "When Eehua saw a stranger 

 approaching, he went forward and gave him the usual welcome, 

 lamenting over him : Eehua made his lamentation without 

 knowing who the stranger was, but Eupe in his lament made 

 use of prayers by which he enabled Eehua to guess who he 

 was. 



" When they had each ended his lamentation, Eehua called 

 to his servants, ' Light a tire, and get everything ready for 



