78 TUTIRA 



Mautaranui's tribe never attacked again. They contented themselves 

 with composing a lament for their chief a lament which, in later times, 

 became a taunt in the mouths of the Ngati-kuru-mokihi against Te 

 Mautaranui's people : " Ko te papa i a matou ko te waiata i a ratou " 

 " We got the victory, they got the song." The tangis printed are the 

 first, a lament for Te Mautaranui ; the second, the lament of Koa for 

 Ti Waewae. 



(LAMENT FOB TE MAUTARANUI.) 



" Te rongo o te tuna e hau mai ra 

 Kei Te Papuni kei a Wharawhara. 

 Nau te whakatau-a-ki nei 



Te uri o Mahanga whakarere kai, whakarere waka : 

 A te uri o Tuhoe, moumou kai moumou taonga 

 Momou tangata ki te po. 

 Hinga nui atu ra ki te aroaro o Hineireireia : 

 To kiri wai kauri na Wero i patupatu. 

 Tarahau nga hinu, e tarahau ki runga o Mohaka : 

 Tarahau nga wheua e, tarahau ki runga o Tangitu, 

 Kia kai mai e, te ika i Rangiriri, 

 Tutara kauika te wehenga ka uki, 

 E tika ana koe mo Te Ro mo Te Apa-rakau. 

 ~N& Tikitu na te uri o Whiro-ki-te-po 

 Taiwhakaea-ki-te ao. 

 Haere ki roto o Tutira mo Ti Waewae. 

 Na tatou koe i tango kino. 

 Koa tu mai ra e Tohe i te hauauru 

 Ka ea ko te mate 

 Tenei e tai ma o tatou kape 

 Koi hianga i a Te Tamaki ma 

 I riro mai ai a Te Heketua, i mate ai Nuhaka, 

 Tona whakautu pahi ko Te Rama-apakura. 

 Haere ki roto o te Mahia, mo Kahawai mo Kauae-hurihia, 

 Inumanga wai te rito o Te Rangi 

 Te pa taea i Pu-te-karoro, 

 I tangi ai te umere, pae noa ki te one 

 I Taiwananga el!" 



(LAMENT OP KOA FOR Ti WAEWAE.) 



" Tenei taku toto te whakahekea nei 

 Rauiri rawa koe i taku rau huruhuru, 

 He tianga raukura no Te Mau-tara-nui, 

 Nau te hotu e, i riro ai ko te hoa. 

 E koro tu kino, te whai-kohatia 



