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LANGUAGE OF NEW ZEALAND. [PART II. 



Why do you make me speak so 

 angrily to you ? I am sur- 

 prised ; you have no shame. 



I tell you the straight way of 

 talking to these strangers, for 

 you do not understand their 

 ways. 



Look for the thing, and don't 

 come here till you find it, or 

 I shall be angry with you. 



We have no persons to show us 

 the road ; we will give pay- 

 ment if one man will show 

 us the road, for we have lost 

 it. 



Don't tease me, but let me sleep. 



I am angry with these fleas; 

 they make me itch. 



Run like a rat up a patuka. 



Your legs are too weak to carry 

 your body. 



Your breath smells. 



A brave man fights, and looks 

 his enemy in the face , but a 

 coward runs away. 



A coward will kill his enemy 

 treacherously ; but a brave 

 man would die of shame if he 

 did so. 



Does your eldest son have your 

 land when you die ? 



Or your daughter, or the hus- 

 band of your daughter ? 



We came to Kareka, and gave 

 the people four heads of to- 



Mo te aha koe i mea iau kai 

 kupu riri ai ahau ki a koe, e 

 miharo ana hau ki a koe e 

 kore wakama nou. 



E korero atu ana ahau kia koe 

 i te kupu tika, e korero mo 

 ki enei tou hoe, mo te mea 

 kahore koe i matou ki nga 

 ritenga o enei tau hoe. 



Ki mira ki te mea kaua koe 

 haere mai kia kite ana te mea 

 me mea kahore ka eriri aha 

 kia koe. 



Kahore kou e tangata e tohu 

 tohu i te ara a me oatu tetahi 

 utu ki tetahi tangata me a mea 

 ka haere ia ki te tohu tohu i 

 te ara, kua ngaro poki a 

 matou. 



Kaua wakatoia ahau, otiira me 

 tukua ki a moe ahau. 



E riri ana ahau ki enei purui 

 e mungea noku. 



Me oma koe me te kiore irunga 



i te patuka. 

 Engoi kore au ou wae wae ki te 



hapai toe tinana. 



Ka pirau toe maniwa. 



Ko te tangata e tou ana e riri 

 ana ka tiro ia tona hoa riri 

 ki te eanou otira ko te koau 

 eoma ana, e waka rire ana 

 ona hoa. 



Ko te koau e kohuru ana tona 

 hoa riri tena ko te tangata 

 toua, e mate ana ia i te wa- 

 kama mo tera kohuru. 



Ka mate koe ka houri eriro toe 



wenua i toe tamaiti mata 



mua? 

 Toe tamahine ranei te tane 



ranei o toe tamahine ranei ? 

 Hae mai matou ki Kareka, a 



oatu ana ki nga tangata ewa 



