64 Transactions. — Miscellaneous . 



Ka riro aku taonga i a Te Anga-a-mai i tawhiti 



Tutata a Ngatiwhatua 



Whakarongo mai ra, e koro 



I Tongariro, i te puke ronaki 



Te iiiii ki te whenua i mahue matau 



Te tira o te taniwha 



Me i hurihia iho, e an ana taku moe 



Ki taku inakaii tipu — e ! 



Te Anga-a-mai is said to be the name of an ancestor who was 

 the ariki (priestly healer) of the ngerengere disease : " He tangi 

 nana, mona e ngaua ana e te ngerengere : — 



Tera te ata iti hohoro mai koia 



Matatu noa ana ko an nei anake 



Kai te mura tonu o te pu a Rewi e ka ana 



K pa I I heria mai i tua 



Kia rongo atu au i te papa koura 



ll.ii taoro iho mo te kino 



I taku tinara ka tueketia 



Ko tahau repera pai tonu tenei e te tangata 



Ko te tika i to pono 



Borahia mai ra, kia ui atu au 



Ko wai to ingoa ? Ko te ana i Oremu 



Ko tau rakau kai te niata ngira tonu 



Te Qgotonga ki roto ra 



Aue ! Te maniac ra ' 



The Maoris placed implicit faith in omens, and recognised 

 one that presaged an attack of leprosy. This was Io, the in- 

 voluntary twitching of certain parts of the body. Io was a sign 

 of L'ood or evil. * If the Io were under either ear it was a sign 

 of death. If it were at the side or below either eye it meant 

 death. If it were above the eves it was an omen that the person 

 would lie smitten with leprosy or with contracted muscles.* 

 The Maoris in the olden times worshipped Lo. whom they regarded 

 as the Supreme God, the creator of heaven and earth, whose name 

 was held to be SO sacred that none but the priest might utter 

 it at certain tunes and places. f We presume that he com- 

 municated with the faithful by means of these involuntary 

 twitchings, thus warning them of danger in time of war, of 

 sickness, and of many other events which would soon come to 



pass. | 



Mr. Edward Shortland,§ Protector of Natives, came in con- 

 tact with large numbers of Maoris, and. writing in lsi.">. he states 

 that at Otakou, in the South Island, he saw for the first time 

 a case ol inhawaihi. The victim, a young woman not more than 

 thirty years of age, had lost her hands and toes, as though they 



* " The \n< h nt 1Ii-i..i\ ..I the Maori." J. White, vol. ii.. p. '_'. 



rh< Life and Times of Pal e," < '. < >. Davis, 1876, p. 13. 



' The io takin (omen) is no1 connected with [o the origin of all 



E. B. 

 1 The Southern Districts of New Zealand," 1851, p. 13. 



