OF THE SOUTH SEAS 



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ioa o te Vahine tahura'i. 

 O pirae uri, o pirae tea, i 

 ore ratou ia parau hia. 



Aita e faufaa i taua ohipa ra. 

 Eiaha Roa'tu orua a rave i 

 taua ohipa ra i te fenua 

 Papa'a na e ama te taata 

 i te anahi, no te mea e ere 

 i te ohipa mau, e ohipa 

 varua ino no te po te reira 

 te huru o taua ohipa a Tu- 

 pua ra. 



Tereira te mau havi rii i roa'a 

 mai ia'u no tau a ohipa ra. 

 Tirara. 



Taumihau tane. 



Concerning Piraeuri and Pi- 

 ritea, Tupua would better 

 not have spoken, as it was a 

 useless prayer. 



Do not introduce the sorcery 

 in the land of the whites! 



Do not carry there this cus- 

 tom of lighting the oven ! 



It is the work of an evil spirit 

 of the night; this act of 

 Tupua. 



For that reason I have said 

 little of him in my story. 

 I have spoken. 

 — Taumihau, The Man. 



