CHAP. IV.] PRAYERS FOR THE SICK. 61 



He Karakia tupapaku, ka ngau tona matenga e te atua ka kara- 

 kiatia tend kakakia kia ia ki oraia. 



Literally A Prayer for the Dead (Sick) when his Head aches ; to 

 Atua this Prayer is prayed, that he (the sick) may become well. 



Ko matataia ko matapo i tako mata wea wea mai wea te rakaua 

 te Atua i taka maimnga te rakaua te Atua i ta Kamai raro te 

 kuruki te mho o te tupua kuruki te niho o te tawitu ka ti ngau 

 kati te ngau kati ko karakiaanga tupuna a nga wananga ko akuo 

 tenei tauira. 



The following is another incantation, in which 

 there occurs an invocation to Tiki and Pani to re- 

 store the patient to health : 



Ta wiwi ta manawa ko taku manato manawa ko taku manawa 

 heki te manawa irunga ia tawaki hoki iho te manawa i e puta ihu 

 hoki iho kia ora tenei tangata E Tiki e Pani kia ora tenei tangata 

 ka hoki mai tena manawa kawaia. 



At the same time the relations make their appear- 

 ance in or near the house, and show their grief by 

 weeping, in which the patient joins. Frequently 

 the latter is carried to another house or to a neigh- 

 bouring village, to have the continual benefit of 

 these lamentations. But, what is more efficient, 

 they provide the sick with better and more easily 

 digestible food than usual with cockles, fresh 

 fishes, decoction of fishes, Sonchus oleraceus, or a 

 solanum, birds, and so on. Men or women of 

 an inferior class, if they become diseased, often go 

 to the bush, and return when they are well again ; 

 whilst there they chiefly employ the steam rising 

 from herbs infused in boiling water. If there are 

 hot-springs in the neighbourhood, they are very 



