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any danger that may be threatening you, its physical basis. 

 Should it discover that some person is bewitching you, it will 

 at once return and you become aware of the fact. So soon as 

 you awake go at once to the tuahu, or sacred place of the 

 village, and stand there ; but you must face in the direction of 

 the place where the wizard lives, and then, stretching forth 

 your hand, you repeat the charm beginning " Whakataha ra 

 koe e te anewa o te rangi e tic net " (Pass by thou whirlwind of 

 the heavens, &c). Having finished that, you then repeat the 

 titaimu charm, which has a most enervating and dangerous 

 effect upon vour enemv : — 



Te imu kei te ruhi 



Te imu k-i te ta, kei te anewa 



To ringa i tu, to ringa i pe 



Pepehi nuku, pepehi rangi 



Rere taka o rangi ki waho 



Kaki whatiia 



Tuku tonu, heke tonu 



Te ika ki te Po 



He ika ka ripiripia 



He ika ka toetoea 



He ika ka haparangibia 



Muimui te ngaro, totoro te iro 



Mau ka oti atu ki te Po 



Oti atu ki te Po wherikoriko. 



The wind known as " Te Aputahi-a-pawa " is most 

 boisterous. It begins with a gentle wind, known as " hau 

 mntdriki," but after continuing for some time it becomes most 

 fierce and is dangerous. Hasten at once to the water, to 

 your mother Wai-nui, and stand therein. You have brought 

 with you a piece of dead ember. You take this in your left 

 hand and pass that hand under your thigh. Biiough, the 

 fierceness of that wind will at once abate. 



Heoi ! You have now seen how beset bv dangers is man's 

 path through life. You have also learned how to avoid such 

 dangers. But the way is thick with snares and pitfalls ; 

 relax your vigilance for a few brief moments and the workers 

 of evil shall fasten upon you. Above all, revere the laws of 

 tapu. Keep green the memory of your ancestors, for of such 

 are the gods of the Maori. They can save you from danger 

 or send you down to Hades. 



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"f* n» 'i- i* f 



The long, weary fight against superstition which you have 

 waged for many centuries, through sorrow and darkness and 

 much suffering, it has just commenced here. Old Waihui, a 

 frail survivor from the days of the levelled spear, when she 

 heard of the marvels of the white man's hospital, said to me, 

 "Oh! and if we had taken my son there he might still be 

 -with me.". 



And so the struggle goes on. 



