DowNES. — New Light on Period of Extinction of the Moa. 438 



Descent of Hau-te-horo from Tamatea, an Immigrant from Eastern Polynesia 

 (about Ten more Generations to Present Time). 



Tamatea 



i 

 Rangi-nui 



I 

 Taotu (?) 



I 

 Te Tohia 



I 

 Kuri-nui 



I 

 Maru-houa 



Te Wliakaroro-a-te-po 



I 

 Tu-hokai-rangi 



Murupara 



Te Hauerangi (?) 



Hau-te-noro. 



Tlie lament is as follows : — ■ 



Tera ia te ao pukohu te huripoki ra i runga o Hikurangi 



He tohu aitua tenei ka tata mai ki ahau, 



E noho waLrangi noa nei i raro, 



■V\niakarongo iho ai ki roto i ahau, 



E liaruru ana me he tai e whati ana, 



Haere ra, e hine ma, e tama ma 



E koro ma e, ki rote o' Hawaiki-rangi 



I runga o Irihia i Tawhiti-nui 



I Tawhiti-pamamao ki te Hono-i-wairua, 



Ki te huna i a te Kura-nui e ngaro nei 



I te ahi a te tipua nana i huna ; takoto kau Aotearoa, 



Ko ia te ngaro ia koutou, e Tama ma — e — i. 



Whakamau atu ra ki roto o Hawaiki-rangi 



Ka whai e koutou ki te ara tiatia 



Ki te Toi huarewa i kake ai Tane, 



Ki te pumotomoto o Tikitiki o Rangi, 



Kia urutomo atu koutou ki roto te Rauroha, 



Ma tini o te Marei-kura koutou e powhiri mai 



Ki roto o Rangi-atea, ka whakaoti te manako 



Ki taiao nei, e Tama ma — e — i. 



[Paraphrase.] 

 Afar off the fleecy mists enshi-oud the summit of Hikurangi ; an evil omen this 

 that hovers near me, dwelling restless and apprehensive below, hearkening to hidden 

 dangers resounding like unto breaking seas. Parewell, maids and lads. Farewell, 

 elders, to Hawaiki-rangi, on Irihia, at Tawhiti-nui, at Tawhiti-pamamao — to the 

 Hono-i-wairua ; there to be lost to me even as the Kura-nui is lost, destroyed by 

 mysterious fires, and lone lies Aotearoa. Thus are ye lost to me, sons. Fare on to 

 Hawaiki-rangi, follow the whirling way by which Tane ascended to the tntrance of the 

 uppermost heaven. That you may enter within the Rauroha, where multitTides of 

 celestial maids will welcome you within Rangi-atea, where a,Il desire for this world shall 

 cease, sons. 



The third period that has been chosen is some twenty years before the 

 first discovery of bones by Europeans— that is, about 1820. 



The accompanying tangi was part of a lament composed on the death 

 of Te Momo, a great chief allied to Ngati-Tuwharetoa, who was killed by 

 Ngati-Kahungunu at Kahotea, near Koto-a-Tara, about the year 1820. 



