762 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F, 
“ He went to England, and never returned. He is known there 
as Jehovah. His banana-skin vessel became the white man’s 
ships and boats. To this day there remain on two rocks on Mai 
two marks showing the truth of all this—-the mark of Tamakaia’s 
rope on the rock he used.as a block, and the mark of his firmly- 
planted feet, where he stood when engaged in drawing all lands 
into visible existence. Maui-tikitiki died, and was buried on 
Mai.” 
The following is given in Efate as the song of Supe (Tamakaia) 
which he sang when pulling up the land from the sea :— 
Maui-tikitiki ko maurimai 
Ku matuatua, 
Kinau mitau ki tonga, 
Tonga mau : 
Serinmatau, serinmatau, 
Serinmatau ¢é. 
This song is sung by the people of Efate now in hauling up a 
heavy canoe, in dragging heavy logs, or anything heavy. 
In Efate, Maui-tikitiki is said to have drawn up the lands from 
the sea, and little seems to be known about Tamakaia. 
Il, LEI MAULTIKITIKI, 
In the above story the wife of Maui-tikitikiis mentioned. Lez, 
that is, female, Maui-tikitiki, is said by the Efatese to dwell in 
the sky (heaven); more particularly what we call “the man in 
the moon ” is said to be Let Maui-tikitikit me atenina, “ Lei Mani- 
tikitiki and her grandchild.” 
On Efate she is regarded as having been present when the 
lands were drawn up from the sea. She saw the land in a 
fluctuating condition, just after it arose from the waters, and 
dashed the earthenware water pots, which she was carrying, 
violently upon it, with such a shock as to make it fixed and 
stable. But the pots were shivered into fragments, and hence 
the fragments of pottery found strewn all over Efate are called 
nabura mai ki Let Maui-tikitikt, the shells of the water-pots of 
Lei Maui tikitiki. 
The art of making earthenware pots, which is still preserved in 
Santo, had been lost by the Efatese before the advent of Euro- 
peans. But these fragments of pottery are sometimes called 
nabura ki Supe, the shells of the water-pots of Supe, where Supe 
may denote either Lei Maui-tikitiki or the ancients, or ancestors. 
Efatese axes used to be made out of shells and called karau. Now 
that European axes have come upon the scene, these, discarded, 
are found in the bush, near villages, and are called karaw ki Supe, 
the axes of the ancients. 
