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This saying was used when a person was unwilling to give what was 
asked, the same being some common thing and not at all needed by the 
owner. 
Soot from burning Aauri-resin (a genuine lamp-black !) was carefully 
collected in a very peculiar manner and only by much pains, and buried in 
the earth placed in a hollowed soft-stone, where it was kept for years, and said 
to improve in quality by age; it was used as a black pigment in tattooing. 
But there is a double meaning here, viz.: You may never require it, or live 
to use it! 
218. Waiho noa iho nga taonga; tena te mana o Taiwhanake. — 
Leave (your) goods anywhere; here is the power and might of the 
Rising-tide. 
Used to strangers, to show, that the people of the place were honest, 
etc., and under their chief, who is figuratively called the Overwhelming Sea 
or Rising-tide. 
214 Te aute tee whawhea ! 
The paper mulberry bark is not blown away by the winds. 
Meaning: Peaceful times ; all going on well; no disturbances. 
The bark of the paper mulberry shrub, or small tree, (Broussonetia papyri- 
fera) which was formerly cultivated by the ancient New Zealanders, and 
used as a kind of white cloth ornament for the hair, was, after being beaten 
and washed, etc., spread out to dry in small pieces, but only in fine, calm 
Weather. 
215. Haere mai ki Hauraki, te aute tee awhea ! 
Come hither (to us) to Hauraki, a district in the Thames, where the 
prepared paper mulberry bark is not blown away (or disturbed) 
by the winds while drying and bleaching. 
A proverb of similar meaning to the last one. 
216. Haere i mua, i te aroaro o Atutahi. 
Go before the presence (or rising) of (the star) Atutahi; or, Work 
away diligently in advance of the appearing (of the star) 
Atutahi. 
Formerly used (1.) concerning the proper time of annual friendly 
visiting, —viz., in the autumn, when food is plentiful, and before the frosts 
set in; (2.) also (and more commonly), for the early digging and storing 
securely in their neatly-built storehouses of their precious kumara crop, on 
which so much depended; which roots if but slightly touched by frost, 
rotted. The star Atutahi* rises in April, and was to them indicative of the 
season of approaching frosts. 
* See a future paper on the astronomical lore of the old New Zealanders. 
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