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down to the beach as fast as she could, and not seeing her hus- 

 band, she went about calHng out his name, but no answer was 

 made to her ; she then called out as Maui had told her, ' Mo-i, 

 mo-i, mo-i.' Then Ii-awaru, who was running about in the 

 bushes near there in the form of a dog, at once recognised the 

 voice of Hinauri, and answered, ' Ao ! ao ! ao ! ao-ao-o ! ' howl- 

 ing like a dog, and he followed her back to the village, frisking 

 along and wagging his tail with pleasure at seeing her ; and 

 from him sprang all dogs, so that he is regarded as their pro- 

 genitor, and all New Zealanders still call their dogs to them by 

 the words, ' Moi, moi, moi.' 



'* Hinauri, when she saw that her husband had been changed 

 into a dog, was quite distracted with grief, and wept bitterly the 

 whole way as she went back to the village ; and as soon as ever 

 she got into her house she caught up an enchanted gndle which 

 she had, and ran back to the sea with it, determined to destroy 

 herself by throwing herself into the ocean, so that the dragons 

 and monsters of the deep might devour her. When she reached 

 the sea-shore, she sat down upon the rocks at the water's very 

 edge ; and as she sat there she first lamented aloud her cruel 

 fate, and repeated an incantation, and then threw herself into 

 the sea, and the tide swept her off from the shore. . . . For 

 many months she floated through the sea, and was at last thrown 

 up by the surf on the beach at a place named Wa;irarawa. She 

 was there found, lying as if dead, upon the sandy shore, by two 

 brothers named Ihuatamai and Ihuwareware. Her body was 

 in many parts overgrown with seaweed and barnacles, from the 

 length of time she had been in the water, but they could still 

 see some traces of her beauty, and pitying the young girl, they 

 lifted her up in their arms and carried her home to their house, 

 and laid her down carefully by the side of a fire, and scraped off 

 very gently the seaweed and barnacles from her body, and thus 

 by degrees restored her. When she had quite recovered, Ihua- 

 tamai and Ihuwareware looked upon her with pleasure, and 

 took her as a wife between them both. They then asked her 

 to tell them who she was, and what was her name. This she 

 did not disclose to them, but she changed her name and called 

 herself Ihungarupaea, or the ' Stranded-log-of-timber." After 

 she had lived with these two brothers for a long time, Ihuware- 

 ware went to pay a visit to his superior chief, Tinirau, and to 

 relate the adventures which had happened ; and when Tinirau 

 heard all that had taken place, he went to bring away the young 

 stranger as a wife for himself, and she was given up to him ; 

 but, before she was so given to him, she had conceived a child 

 by Ihuatamai, and when she went to live with Tinirau it was 

 near the time when the child should be born. 



" Tinirau took her home with him to his residence on an 

 island called Motutapu : he had two other wives living there ; 



