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home. Then, to the wonder and perplexity of their parents, every one of 
the elder brothers introduced his wife as the famous Rorongarahia. But 
the mother could not see such world-renowned beauty in any of them. 
However, they had got wives, and, as it seemed, every one to his own satis- 
faction. Then the mother looked with pity on her youngest son, and said, 
‘* You alone have come back without a wife.”’ ‘‘ Well,’’ he answered, ‘‘has 
no one looked into my cabin in the canoe?” ‘‘ No; what should there be 
to look for ?’” Then he begged his mother to go and see. She did so, and 
there found the most beautiful lady, and in tears. But the handmaid sat 
quite composed. Ruru-teina had taken down to them two roasted birds. 
Te Roronga had eaten only a very little of hers; but the handmaid had 
eaten hers clean up. The mother called the people together to come and 
see the most beautiful lady, the wife of her youngest son. Now the elder 
brothers found that they had been taken in, and every one beat his wife, 
because she had deceived him. 
4,.—Hona 
Rona is known in New Zealand, not oe by the Maori, but also by 
some Europeans, as ‘‘ the man in the moon,” and for that reason I must 
not pass him over, though it is rather a rude tale. 
One day, while Rona was out fishing, his wife went out of the house and 
called, ‘* Hoka! come down; we two .’ Hoka answered, ‘‘ I dare not. 
Rona is a jealous being. Let Rona get far out on the sea, and I will 
come.’’ But Hoka was such a rude man that he came straight over the 
fences, and broke them down. Before Rona came home, Hoka was off 
again. Then Rona asked his wife how the fences had been broken. The 
wife said that the wind had blown them down. ‘‘ But there was no wind 
on the sea,” said Rona. The wife said, ‘‘O, such a wind was blowing 
here.” On another calm day, when Rona was again far out on the sea, 
fishing, the wife called again for Hoka. Again the fences were broken 
down, and when Rona came home, the wife told him again the same tale of 
a great wind. Next calm fishing day, Rona, pretending to go out to sea in 
the fishing-canoe, hid himself in the house, and then found it all out. He 
caught Hoka, tore off a part, and then let him go. He roasted that part, 
intending that his wife should eat it; but she ran away, her small children 
following her crying; the eldest daughter stayed with her father. Rona 
called after his wife : ‘‘ If you come back you shall eat it.’ She went with 
the children to the wild ranges of the mountains ; but, after some time, she 
thought it best to send the children home to their father. She instructed 
them how to find him, and then, by means of sorcery, she pnt them into a 
log of wood, and rolled the same into the sea, to let the wind drive it home. 
